Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

The practical house carpenter, or, Youth's instructor : containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture : as centering for groins, niches, &c., examples for roofs, sky-lights, &c., the five orders laid down by a new scale, mouldings, &c., at large, with their enrichments, plans, elevations, and sections of houses for town and country, lodges, hot-houses, green-houses, stables, &c., design for a church, with plan, elevation, and two sections, an altar-piece, and pulpit, designs for chimney-pieces, shop-fronts, door-cases, section of a dining room and library, variety of stair cases, with many other important articles, and useful embellishments : the whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by one hundred and forty-eight copper-plates, with explanations to each / Practical house carpenter Youth's instructor by William Pain ... - The sixth edition, with additions. - Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson ..., 1797. - [34] p., 146 [i.e. 148] folded leaves of plates : chiefly ill., diagrams, plans ; 26 cm. (4to)

Signatures: piČ A1-P1. LC copy imperfect: plates 70-71 wanting.

Evans 32628

po 18000009


Architecture--Early works to 1800.
Building--Early works to 1800.
Architecture--Details.

NA2515 / .P3 1797