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 James, 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 gentlemans and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. By William Pain, Architect and Joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Pain, William
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for I. Taylor, at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane 1774, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]
Subjects:	Architecture / Early Works To 1800 Building Decoration And Ornament, Architectural
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1182601800?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa