The 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 Pain, William 1730?-1790? creator American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) text pau Philadelphia Printed by Thomas Dobson ... 1797 The sixth edition, with additions. monographic eng

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[34] p., 146 [i.e. 148] folded leaves of plates : chiefly ill., diagrams, plans ; 26 cm. (4to) by William Pain ... Signatures: pi² A1-P1. LC copy imperfect: plates 70-71 wanting. DLC Architecture Early works to 1800 Building Early works to 1800 Architecture Details NA2515 .P3 1797 Evans 32628 po 18000009 U.S. Patent Office. Library 830203 20260227111857.0 po 18000009