The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant
Subtitle: demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish : illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published : with clear and ample instructions ... : the whole correctly engraven on 102 folio copper-plates, containing upwards of seven hundred designs ...
By: by William Pain, architect and joiner.
Publisher: Printed for the author, and Robert Sayer ...
Published: 1762
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Architecture -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Builder's companion.
Notes: First published, 1758. Cf. BLC.
Signatures: pi1 [A]² B². Followed by the 102 plates.
Three prelim. leaves (unpaged) and the first 2 leaves of the main work (paged 1-4) are printed fom type. The remainder of the work is engraved throughout; the leaves are called pages and numbered 5-81, with 25 unnumbered leaves interpolated.