The practical house carpenter
Subtitle: Being a complete development of the Grecian orders of architecture, methodised and arranged in such a simple, plain, and comprehensive manner, as to be easily understood; each example being fashioned according to the style and practice of the present day ...
By: By Asher Benjamin ...
Publisher: Printed and published by S. Walker
Published: 1830
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Architecture; Handbooks, manuals; Orders; Carpentry
Notes: "Containing one example of the Tuscan order, three examples of the Doric order, three examples of the Ionic order, one example of the Corinthian order, and one example of the composite order, with all their details drawn to a large scale; to which are added, a series of designs for porticos, frontispieces ... & c. engraved on sixty-four large quarto copper plates."