The builder's companion and workman's general assistant; 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 annexed to each Subject or Number, on the same Plate, with Estimates of Materials and Workmanship; Being not only useful to all Masons, Bricklayers, Plasterers, Carpenters, Joiners, and others concerned in the several Branches of Building, &c. but also necessary for Gentlemen, who will be hereby enabled to know the exact Expence of any Building, Alteration, or Repair. The whole correctly engraved on 92 folio copper-plates, containing upwards of seven hundred designs on the following Subjects, &c. 1. Of Foundations, Walls, and their Diminutions, Fitness of Chimneys, and Proportion of Light to Rooms, with the due Scantlings of Timber to be cut for Buildings, &c. II.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Pain, William
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for Robert Sayer, Map and Printseller, at the Golden Book, near Serjeant's Inn, Fleet-Street 1769, MDCCLXIX. [1769]
Edition:	The third edition, with many improvements and additions by the author
Subjects:	Architecture / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0566800300?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa