The practical builder
Subtitle: 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 soffits : rules of carpentry : to find the length and backing of hips, straight or curved : trusses for roofs, doomes, &c., trussing of girders, sections of floors, &c. : the proportion 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, ceilings, cornices, architraves, &c. : in the newest taste : with plans and elevations of gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c
Edition: The fourth edition / revised and corrected by the author, William Pain, architect and joiner.
Publisher: Printed and sold by John Norman
Published: 1792
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
Subjects: Architectural Decoration and ornament; Domestic Architecture; Designs and plans; Building; Carpentry
Notes: Signatures: [A]² B².

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