The practical builder or, Workman's general assistant :
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, strait or curved, trusses for roofs, domes, &c. : trussing of girders, sections of floors, &c. : the proportion of the five orders in their general and particular parts, gluing 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 gentlemens and farm-houses, barns, &c. /
by William Pain, architect and joiner ; engraved on eighty-three plates.

Description

Main Author

Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

Related Names

Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed for I. Taylor at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, MDCCLXXIV [1774]

Subjects

Architecture > Architecture / England > Architecture / England / 18th century.
Building > Building / England > Building / England / Early works to 1800.
Etchings > Etchings / England > Etchings / England / 18th century.

Note

Taylor's notices, last leaf.
First edition.

Physical Description

5, [11] p., LXXXIII leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 27 cm (4to)

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