The builder's pocket-treasure or, Palladio delineated and explained, in such a manner as to render that most excellent author plain and intelligible to the meanest Capacity, in which not only the Theory, but the Practical Part of Architecture has been carefully attended to. Illustrated With New and Useful Designs of Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, &c. with their Bases, Capitals, and Entablatures, at large for Practice; Architrave Frontispieces, Cornices, and Mouldings for the Inside of Rooms, &c. the Construction of Stairs, with their Ramp and twist Rails; framing of Floors, Rooss, and Partitions; with the Method of finding the Length and Backing of Hips, streight or curvi-linear; the tracing of Groins, Angle-Blackets, splay'd or circular Soffits; with Plans and Elevations of a Dwelling-House, Hot-House, Garden Temple, Seat and Bridge; and a Table of Scantlings for cutting Timber for Building. The Whole neatly and correctly engraved on Forty-Four Copper Plates, With printed Explanations to face each Plate. By William Pain. Engraved by Isaac Taylor

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Pain, William
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-Street, near Temple-Bar 1766, [1766]
Edition:	Second edition, with an appendix of eleven copper plates, with explanations
Subjects:	Palladio, Andrea / 1508-1580 Architecture / Early Works To 1800 Architecture / Designs And Plans / Early Works To 1800 Architecture / Details
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0490000400?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa