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; being not only useful but necessary to all masons, bricklayers, plasterers, carpenters, joiners, and others concerned in the several branches of building, &c. Also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule, to calculated as to render easy the drawing of any figure, architrave, frize, cornice, or moulding, that can be required to any given scale. The whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper-plates, from the designs of William Pain the subjects herein chiefly consist of, I.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Pain, William
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London Printed for the author, and Robert Saver, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street 1758, MDCCLVIII. [1758]
Subjects:	Architecture / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1490700800?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa