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 : to which is added, a list of prices for materials and labour, labour only, and day prices : the whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper plates, with explanations to each
By: by William Pain, author of The practical builder, and British Palladio
Contributors: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?; I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)
Edition: The fifth edition, with additions.
Publisher: Printed for I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, No. 56, High Holborn
Published: 1794
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Architecture; Early works to 1800; Designs and plans; Carpentry; Building; Details; Prices
Other titles: Youth's instructor
Notes: 'A list of prices, for materials and labour, and labour only ..." on p. 1-22 at end.

Bookseller's advertisements on final leaf.

With 146 numbered plates and two additional plates 3 and 65 repeated in numbering; bottom of some plates bears date 1789 or 1791.

Charles Wood states that "this is the single most influential American architectural book in the late 18th and early 19th century America ... it was also the immediate source for much of the material in Benjamin's Country builder's assistant (1797)."--Charles Wood III Bookseller Catalogue #107, p. 46.

English short title catalogue, T93532