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. : The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by one hundred and forty-eight 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 sixth edition, with additions.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 32628.
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the Stone-House, no 41, South Second-Street.
Published: 1797
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Architecture -- Designs and plans.; Building -- Details.; Carpentry.
Notes: With 146 numbered plates; two additional plates face plates 3 and 65.

Evans 32628.

Rink, E.  Technical Americana, 1757.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 32628)