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 jambs, 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 gentlemens and farm-houses, barns, &c.

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Pain, William, 1730?-1790?; Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807