The practical house carpenter or, youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; As Centring for Groins, Niches, &c. Examples for Roofs, Sky-Lights, &c. The Five Orders laid down by a new Scale. Mouldings, &c. at large, with their Enrichments. Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Houses for Town and Country, Lodges, Hot-Houses, Green-Houses, Stables, &c. Design for a Church, with Plan, Elevation, and Two Sections; an Altar-Piece, and Pulpit. Designs for Chimney-Pieces, Shop-Fronts, Door-Cases. Section of a Dining-Room and Library. Variety of Stair-Cases: with many other important Articles and useful Embellishments. To which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, labour only, and day prices. The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper-plates, with Explanations to each. By William Pain, Author of the Practical Builder, and British Palladio
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
London
printed for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, No. 59, High Holborn
1799, 1799
|
| Edition: | The sixth edition, corrected |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | |
| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | 'A list of prices, for materials and labour, and labour only, .. By William Pain .. 1799' has its own pagination and register. - English Short Title Catalog, T93534. - Plates numbered to 146, but are complete. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - The plates where dated are either 1789 or 1791. - Vertical chainlines |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (v,[31];24p.,plates(some fold.)) 4° |