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, 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 : the whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by one hundred and forty-eight copper-plates, with explanations to each
By: by William Pain ...
Contributors: American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The sixth edition, with additions.
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Dobson ...
Published: 1797
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Architecture -- Early works to 1800.; Building -- Early works to 1800.; Architecture -- Details.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Practical house carpenter; Youth's instructor
Notes: LC copy has inscription: Edwd Armor, Carlisle, Penna.
Evans 32628
Signatures: pi² A1-P1.
LC copy imperfect: plates 70-71 wanting.