An edition of The practical builder, or Workman's general assistant (1792)

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, straight or curved; trusses for roofs, doomes [sic], &c. trussing of girders, sections of floors, &c. The proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts:--glewing 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 gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c. : Engraved on eighty-three plates

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An edition of The practical builder, or Workman's general assistant (1792)

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, straight or curved; trusses for roofs, doomes [sic], &c. trussing of girders, sections of floors, &c. The proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts:--glewing 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 gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c. : Engraved on eighty-three plates

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Printed and sold by John Norman, no. 75 Newbury Street.
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English

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Building, Details, Designs and plans, Architecture, Carpentry, Early works to 1800

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The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant: showing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building ...
1973, J. Norman
Microform in English - 4th ed., rev. and corr.
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Cover of: The practical builder, or Workman's general assistant
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, straight or curved; trusses for roofs, doomes [sic], &c. trussing of girders, sections of floors, &c. The proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts:--glewing 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 gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c. : Engraved on eighty-three plates
1792, Printed and sold by John Norman, no. 75 Newbury Street.
Microform in English - The fourth edition, / revised and corrected by the author William Pain, architect and joiner
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Edition statement transposed; precedes "Engraved on eighty-three plates."

Evans 25956

Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 896

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2474

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Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 25956)

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Early American imprints -- no. 25956
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Designs and plans

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8 p., lxxxiii leaves of plates

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