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
Contributors: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?, engraver
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
Format: Microform
Subjects: Architecture -- Designs and plans; Building -- Details; Carpentry
Genres: Designs and plans
Notes: Edition statement transposed; precedes "Engraved on eighty-three plates."

Evans 25956

Hitchcock, H.R.  Amer. architectural books, 896

Rink, E.  Technical Americana, 2474

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Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 25956)