The practical builder, or workman's general assistant; : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building; as the use of the tramel for groins, angle-brackets, niches, &c. Semi-circular arches on flewing jambs, the preparing and making their sofitts. Rules of carpentry; to find the length and backing of hips, straight or curved. - Trusses for roofs, domes, &c. - Trussing of girders, sections of floors, &c. The proportions of the five orders, in their general and particular parts. - Glewing of columns, stair-cases with their ramp and twist rails; fixing the carriages, newels, &c. Frontispieces, chimney-pieces, cielings, cornices, architraves, &c. in the newest taste. - With plans and elevations of gentlemens' and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. A new edition, revised and corrected by the author William Pain, architect and joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates..
Pain, William,1730?-1790?.
London: : Printed for I. Taylor, at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane.,
M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]
With a final leaf of advertisements.
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