The American builder's companion; or, A system of architecture, particularly adapted to the present style of building
Subtitle: Treating on practical geometry--The origin of building--Of the five orders of architecture--Of their particular parts and embellishments, and of their application--Also very fully on stairs--On plans and elevations of houses, for both town and country--On churches, court houses, &c.--On sashes, sash frames, shutters, doors, cornices, base and surbase mouldings, architraves, &c. &c. : Illustrated with fifty nine copperplate engravings
By: By Asher Benjamin, architect and carpenter
Edition: Third edition, corrected and enlarged.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 36927
Publisher: Published by R.P. & C. Williams, for the author. Printed by Thomas G. Bangs.
Published: 1816
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Architecture; Designs and plans; Details
Notes: Some plates drawn by A. Benjamin and D. Raynerd; engraved by H.W. Snyder, T. Wightman and G. Fox.

Edition statement transposed; precedes author's name on title page.

Copyright June 1, 1811 by Asher Benjamin.

Error in paging: p. 72 misnumbered 54.

Shaw & Shoemaker 36927

Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 101

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