The builder's assistant
Subtitle: containing the five orders of architecture, selected from the best specimens of the Greek and Roman, with the figured dimensions of their height, projection, and profile, and a variety of mouldings, modillions & foliage ... with working drawings, shewing their method of construction ... : for the use of builders, carpenters, masons, plasterers, cabinet-makers, and carvers, and for whom are sixty original designs, with their plans, elevations and sections, the whole exemplified on 150 copperplates
By: by John Haviland, architect, and engraved by Hugh Bridport, artist.
Contributors: Bridport, Hugh, 1794-ca. 1868.
Publisher: John Bioren
Published: 1818
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Building.; House construction.; Architecture.
Notes: Shaw & Shoemaker 44282.
Includes index.
"An appendix, containing the carpenters', bricklayers', and plasterers' books of prices" (50 p. at end of v. 3) includes a reissue, with original t.p. of: House carpenters' book of prices and rules for measuring and valuing all their different kinds of work ... Philadelphia, 1819 (Shaw & Shoemaker 48278).