The practical builder, or Workman's general assistant
Subtitle: 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 [sic], &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. : Engraved on eighty-three plates
Edition: The fourth edition, / revised and corrected by the author William Pain, architect and joiner.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 25956
Publisher: Printed and sold by John Norman, no. 75 Newbury Street.
Published: 1792
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Architecture; Designs and plans; Building; Details; Carpentry
Notes: Edition statement transposed; precedes "Engraved on eighty-three plates."

Signatures: [A]² B².

Evans 25956

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2474