The practical house carpenter, or, Youth's instructor ...
Subtitle: the whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy by one hundred and forty-eight copper-plates, with explanations to each
By: by William Pain ...
Edition: 8th ed.
Publisher: Printed for J. Taylor
Published: 1815
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Building; Early works to 1800; Architecture; Details
Other titles: Youth's instructor
Notes: "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 section of houses for town and country, lodges, hot-houses, green-houses, stables, &c. Design for a church, with plan, elevation, and two sections; an 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."

First published 1788.

Plates comprise 142 single-page and 6 double-page, numbered 1-146 with two additions at nos. 3 and 65.

Bound with: A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical and ornamental ... which... are ... on sale at J. Taylor's Architectural Library.