The carpenter's pocket directory
Subtitle: containing the best methods of framing timber buildings of all figures and dimensions, with their several parts, as floors, roofs in ledgment, their lengths and backings; trussed roofs, spires, and domes; trussing-girders, partitions, and bridges, with abutments; centering for arches, vaults, &c. cutting stone ceilings, groins, &c. with their moulds; centers for drawing Gothic arches, ellipses, &c. &c. : With the plan and sections of a barn. : Engraved on twenty-four plates, with explanations, forming the most complete and useful work of the kind yet published
By: By William Pain, architect and carpenter, author of The practical builder, The carpenter's and joiner's repository, and The British Palladio
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 32627
Publisher: Published by J.H. Dobelbower and J. Thackara.
Published: 1797
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Architecture; Designs and plans; Carpentry; Framing (Building); Building; Details
Notes: Signatures: [A]² B-H².

Evans 32627

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1756