The practical house carpenter; or, Youth's instructor
Subtitle: 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; and 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. : To which is added, a list of the price of carpenters' work. : The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper plates, with explanations to each
By: by William Pain, author of The practical builder, and British palladio
Contributors: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?, engraver
Edition: The first American from the fifth London edition, with additions.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 30940
Publisher: Printed and sold by William Norman, bookseller and stationer, no. 75, Newbury-Street.
Published: 1796
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Architecture; Designs and plans; Building; Details; Carpentry; Prices
Notes: With 146 numbered plates; two additional plates face plates 3 and 65.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [8], 2nd count.

Evans 30940

Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 897

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1753

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