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.

People / Organizations

• William Pain (Author)

Imprint

Boston: Printed and sold by John Norman, no. 75 Newbury Street, M,DCC,XCII. [1792]

Added name

Pain, William, 1730?-1790?, engraver. Norman, John, 1748?-1817, printer.

Publication year

1792

ESTC No.

W27781

Grub Street ID

337895

Description

8 p., lxxxiii leaves of plates : ill. ; 4⁰

Note

Edition statement transposed; precedes "Engraved on eighty-three plates." -.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: [A]? B?