The builder's pocket-treasure; or, Palladio delineated and explained, in such a manner as to render that most excellent author plain and intelligible to the meanest capacity, in which not only the theory, but the practical part of architecture has been carefully attended to. Illustrated with new and useful designs of frontispieces, chimney-pieces, &c. with their bases, capitals, and entablatures, at large for practice; architrave frontispieces, cornices, and mouldings for the inside of rooms, &c. the construction of stairs, with their ramp and twist rails; framing of floors, roofs, and partitions; with the method of finding the lengths and backing of hips streight or curvi-linear; the tracing of groins, angle-brackets, splay'd or circular soffits; with plans and elevations of a dwelling house, hot-house, garden temple, seat and bridge; and a table of scantlings for cutting timber for building. The whole neatly and correctly engraved on forty-four copper plates, with printed explanations t

People / Organizations

• William Pain (Author)
• William Owen ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-Street, M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]

Added name

Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807, engraver.

Publication year

1771

ESTC No.

N72333

Grub Street ID

52119

Description

iv, [1], 1, 3-4, 6-7, 10-11, 14-15, 21-22, 25-26, 32-35, 47-48, 52-53, 56-57, 61-63, [1], [69]-70, 73-76, 78-79, 81-82, 85-[86], 89-90 p., 55 plates (27 fold.) ; 8°.

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