The builder's golden rule, or, The youth's sure guide :
containing the greatest variety of ornamental and useful designs in architecture and carpentry, with the most ready practical methods of executing the same, from the plan to the ornamental finish, in the most prevailing modern taste : the whole correctly engraved, on 106 copper-plates, with a full explanation in letter-press : to which is added, An estimate of prices for materials and labour, and labour only, with references to the respective designs /
by William Pain, author of The practical builder, &c.

Description

Main Author

Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

Related Names

Steel, Henry Draper, 1756-1818.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed for the author, by H.D. Steel, number 51, Lothbury, near Coleman Street, MDCCLXXXII [1782]

Subjects

Building > Building / Estimates > Building / Estimates / Early works to 1800.
Architecture > Architecture / Details > Architecture / Details / Early works to 1800.
Building > Building / Details > Building / Details / Early works to 1800.

Note

Signatures: [A]⁴(-[A]4) B-C⁴ D1 chi1 ²A-D⁴ E-G⁴ H1.

Physical Description

[2], iii, [1], 18, [2], 58 p., [106] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. (8vo)

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