The practical house carpenter; or, Youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; as centering for groins, niches, &c. Examples for roofs, sky lights, &c. The five orders laid down by a new scale. Mouldings, &c. at large, with their enrichments. Plans, elevations and sections of houses for town and country, lodges, hot-houses, green-houses, stables, &c. Design for a church, with plan, elevation, and two sections; an altar-piece, and pulpit. Designs for chimney-pieces, shop-fronts, door-cases. Section of a dining-room and library. Variety of stair-cases, with many other important articles, and useful embellishments. The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by one hundred and forty-eight copper plates, with explanations to each. By William Pain, author of The practical builder, and British palladio.

People / Organizations

• William Pain (Author)

Imprint

Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the Stone-House, no 41, South Second-Street, 1797.

Added name

Pain, William, 1730?-1790?, engraver. Dobson, Thomas, 1751-1823, printer. Added name American Society of Mechanical Engineers, former owner. MWA New York Public Library, former owner. MWA

Publication year

?

ESTC No.

W27792

Grub Street ID

337907

Description

[36]p., 146[i.e., 148]leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm

Note

With 146 numbered plates; two additional plates face plates 3 and 65.Citation/references Evans, 32628

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1757