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Pain's British palladio: or, The builder's general assistant. Demonstrating, in the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the ground plan to the ornamental finish. Illustrated with several new and useful designs of houses, with their plans, elevations, and sections. Also, clear and ample instructions annexed to each subject, in letter-press; with a list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only. This work will be universally useful to all carpenters, bricklayers, masons, joiners, plaisterers, and other concerned in the several branches of building, &c. comprehending the following subjects, viz. Plans, elevations, and sections of gentlemen's houses. designs for doors, chimneys, and ceilings, with their proper embellishments, in the most modern taste. A great variety of mouldings, for base and surbase architraves, imposts, friezes and cornices, with their proper ornaments, for practice, drawn to half-size: to which are added, scales for enlarging or lessening at pleasure. Also, great variety of stair-cases; shewing the practical method of executing them, in any case required, viz. groins, angle-brackets, circular flewing and winding soffits, domes, sky-lights, &c. all made plain and easy to the meanest capacity. The proportion of windows for the light to rooms. Preparing foundations; the proportion of chimneys to rooms, and sections of flews. The principal timbers properly laid out, on each plan, viz. the manner of framing the roofs, and finding the length and backing of hips, either square or bevel. Scantlings of the timbers, figured in proportion to their bearing. The method for trussing girders, scarsing plates, &c. And many other articles, particularly useful to all persons in the building profession. The whole correctly engraved on forty-two folio copper-plates, from the original designs of William and James Pain.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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The practical house carpenter; or, youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; As Centring 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. To which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, labour only, and day prices. The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper-plates, with Explanations to each. By William Pain, Author of the Practical Builder, and British Palladio.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: 1799- Books
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Pain's British Palladio: or, the builder's general assistant. Demonstrating, in the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the ground plan to the ornamental finish. ... The whole correctly engraved on forty-two folio copper-plates, from the original designs of William and James Pain.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: 1797- Books
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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. To which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, labour only, and day prices. The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper plates, With Explanations to each, By William Pain, Author of the Practical Builder, and British Palladio.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Books
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The carpenter's pocket directory; containing, the best methods of framing timber buildings of all figures and dimensions, with their several parts, as floors; roofs in ledgment, their Lengths and Backings; trussed roofs, spires, and domes; Trussing-Girders, Partitions, and Bridges, with Abutments; Centering for Arches, Vaults, &c. cutting Stone Ceilings, Groins, &c. with their Moulds; Centers for drawing Gothic Arches, Ellipses, &c. &c. With the plan and sections of a barn. Engraved on twenty-four plates, with explanations, forming the most complete and useful Work of the Kind yet published. By William Pain, Architect and Carpenter, Author of the Practical Builder, and the Carpenter's and Joiner's Repository.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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New designs for Chinese bridges, temples, triumphal arches, garden seats, palings, obelisks, termini's, &c. On fourteen copper plates. Together with full instructions to workmen annex'd to each particular design; a near estimate of their charge, and hints where with most advantage to be erected. The whole invented and drawn by Will. and John Halfpenny, architects. Part II. Published according to act of Parliament, Feb 1, 1751.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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New designs for Chinese bridges, temples, triumphal arches, garden-seats, palings, obelisks, termini, &c. On fourteen copper plates. Together with full instructions to workmen, annexed to each particular design. A near estimate of their charge, and hints where, with most advantage, to be erected. The whole invented and drawn by Will. and John Halfpenny, architects. Part II. Published according to act of Parliament.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: [1755?]- Books
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The architecture of A. Palladio; in four books. Containing A short Treatise of the Five Orders, and the most necessary Observations concerning all Sorts of Building; as also The different Construction of Private and Publick Houses High-Ways, Bridges, Market-Places, Xystes, Temples, with their Plans, Sections, and Uprights. Revis'd, Design'd, and Publish'd By Giacomo Leoni, a Venetian; Architect to His most Serene Highness, the Late Elector Palatine. Translated from the Italian Original. In Two Volumes.
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.Date: M.DCC.XXI. [1721]- Books
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Observations on bridge building, and the several plans offered for a new bridge. In a letter addressed to the gentlemen of the committee, appointed by the Common-Council of the City of London, for putting in execution, a scheme of building a new bridge across the Thames, at or near Black Friars.
Publicus.Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]- Books
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A general treatise of architecture. In seven books. Containing All that is Necessary to be known in Building, with several new designs of houses, &c. and also the Plans of their different Situations. In a Manner entirely New and Pleasant. Being an Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Architecture and Building, and for the better understanding the rules of Vitruvius, Palladio, Scamozzi, And others both Antient and Modern. By Thomas Rowland, of New-Windsor, Gent. To which is added, a work of infinite Labour and Expence, consisting of tables for the mensuration of all sorts of works us'd in building, of great Use and Service to all Architects, Artificers, and Measurers whatsoever.
Rowland, Thomas, of New-Windsor.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732] [1739?]- Books
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The builder's magazine: or, a universal dictionary for architects, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. AS Well AS For Every Gentleman who would wish to be a competent Judge of the elegant and necessary Art of Building. Consisting of designs in architecture, In Every Stile and Taste, from the most magnificent and superb Structures, down to the most simple and unadorned; together with the plans and sections, serving as an unerring Assistant in the Construction of any Building, from a Palace to a Cottage. In Which Will BE Introduced Grand and Elegant Designs for Chimney-Pieces, Ciblings, Doors, Windows, &c. proper for Halls, Saloons, Vestibules, State Rooms, Dining Rooms, Parlours, Drawing Rooms, Anti Rooms, Dressings Rooms, Bed Rooms, &c. Together With Designs for Churches, Hospitals, and other Public Buildings. Also, Plans, Elevations, and Sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic Taste, calculated to embellish Parks, Gardens, Forests, Woods, Canals, Mounts, Vistos, Islands, extensive Views, &c. The whole forming a complete system of architecture, in all its Branches, and so disposed, as to render the Surveyor, Carpenter, Mason, &c. equally capable to erect a Cathedral, a Mansion, a Temple, or a Rural Cot. By a Society of architects.
Carter, John, 1748-1817.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The practical house carpenter, or The youth's instructor: Containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; the five orders laid down by an entire new scale; with frontispieces, chimney pieces, stair cases, and mouldings at large; with their proper embellishments for practice. plans, elevations, and sections, for town and country houses. Printed on fifty-four quarto copper plates, with explanations to face each plate. By William Pain, author of the golden rule and British palladio.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The practical house carpenter, or the youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; The Five Orders laid down by an entire new Scale; with Frontispieces, Chimney Pieces, Stair Cases, and Mouldings at large; with their proper embellishments for practice. Plans, elevations, and sections, For Town and Country Houses. Printed on seventy-five quarto copper plates, with explanations to face each plate. By William Pain, Author of the Golden Rule and British Palladio.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790] [1791]- Books
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The modern builder's assistant; or, a concise epitome of the whole system of architecture; In which The various Branches of that excellent Study are establish'd on the most familiar Principles, And rendered adequate to every Capacity; Being useful to the Proficient, and easy to the Learner. Divided into three parts. Containing I. A Correct View of the Five Orders, explained in several Sheets of Letter-Press. II. Consisting of Regular Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Houses, in the most elegant and convenient Manner, either for the Reception of Noblemen, Gentlemen or Tradesmen with large or small Families, adapted to the Taste of Town or Country. To which Part is added, A great Variety of other Plans for Offices or Out-Houses adjoining to them of different Dimensions for Domestic Uses; Such as Kitchens, Wash-Houses, Malt-Houses, Bake-Houses, Brew-Houses, Dairies, Vaults, Stables, Coach-Houses, Dog-Kennels, &c. &c. Together with the Estimates of each Design, and Proper Instructions to the Workmen how to execute the same. III. Exhibiting (ornamental as well as plain) a Variety of Chimney-Pieces, Windows, Doors, Sections of Stair-Cases, Rooms, Halls, Saloons, &c. Skreens for Rooms, also Cielings, Piers, and Gate-Roofs, &c. &c. The whole beautifully engraved on eighty five folio copper plates, from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, Architects and Carpenters, Robert Morris, Surveyor, and and T. Lightoler, Carver.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: MDCCVLII [1757]- Books
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Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British architect, containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular building, both publick and private, in Great Britain, with variety of new designs; in 200 large folio plates, ... in III volumes ... by Colen Campbell, Esqr. = Vitruvius Britanicus, ou l'architecte britannique, contenant les plans elevations, sections des batı̂mens reguliers, ... de la Grande Bretagne, ... en trois tomes ... Par le Sieur Campbell. ...
Campbell, Colen, 1676-1729.Date: 1767?]- Books
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The art of fortification delineated: with rules for designing, drawing, washing, and colouring, in the most elegant taste, particular works and buildings, and their Plans, Elevations, Sections, Profiles, and Fronts, in Civil and Military Architecture: As likewise The intire Survey of a Place with its particular Charts, and the Description of Provinces, States, Kingdoms, Empires, &c. A Work absolutely necessary for the Gentleman, Officer, and Architect. Translated by J. Dinsdale. Adorn'd with twenty-three cuts, engrav'd by G. Bickham.
Buchotte, M., active 18th century.Date: M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]- Books
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Pain's British Palladio: or, the builder's general assistant. Demonstrating, in the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the ground plan to the ornamental finish. Illustrated with Several New and Useful Designs of Houses, with their Plans, Elevations, and Sections. Also, Clear and Ample Instructions, annexed to each Subject, in Letter-Press; with a List of Prices for Materials and Labour, and Labour only. This Work will be universally useful to all Carpenters, Bricklavers, Masons, Joiners, Plaisterers, and others, concerned in the several Branches of Building, &c. comprehending the following Subjects, viz. Plans, Elevations, and Sections, of Gentlemen's Houses. Designs for Doors, Chimneys, and Ceilings, with their proper Embellishments, in the most modern Taste. A great Variety of Mouldings, for Base and Surbase Architraves, Imposts, Friezes, and Cornices, with their proper Ornaments, for Practice, drawn to Half-Size: To which are added, Seales for enlarging or lessening at Pleasure, if required. Also, Great Variety of Stair-Cases; shewing the practical Method of executing them, in any Case required, viz. Groins, Angle-Brackets, Circular Circular Flewing and Winding Soffits, Domes, Sky-Lights, &c. all made plain and easy to the meanest Capacity. The Proportion of Windows for the Light to Rooms. Preparing Foundations; the Proportion of Chimneys to Rooms, and Sections of Flews. The principal Timbers properly laid out on each Plan, viz. the Manner of sraming the Roofs, and finding the Length and Backing of Hips, either square or hevel. Scantlings of the Timbers, figured in Proportion to their Bearing. The Method for trussing Girders, Searsing Plates, &c. And many other Articles, particularly useful to all Persons in the Building Profession. The whole correctly engraved on forty-two folio copper-plates, from the original designs of William and James Pain.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Vignola revived; Wherein is shewn The True and most Elegant Proportions of the five orders, As laid down by that Great Master: Illustrated by Two Hundred and Twenty-Seven designs of Palaces and other Magnificent Buildings, Executed by himself in Italy and elsewhere; Neatly Engraved on fifty-six folio copper-plates, adapted Not only to the General Use of architecture, but herein Particular Subjects are treated with the greatest Accuracy, viz. The Five Orders; Columns, Symbolical, &c. &c. Doors, Windows, Niches, &c. Cornishes, French and Italian; Ballustrades, Mosaic Work, Mouldings, &c. Sections of Rooms, with Designs for Furniture; Ornamental Iron-Work for various Purposes; Temples, Grotto's, and Summer Retreats, for Parks, Gardens, &c. Plan, Elevations, and Sections of the Castle of St. Angelo at Rome; also of a Church, Pallaces, &c. With many other Particulars relative to the Art of Building.
Vignola, 1507-1573.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British architect; containing plans, elevations, and sections; of the regular buildings both public and private, in Great Britain. Comprised in one hundred folio plates, engrav'd by the best hands; taken from the buildings, or original designs by Woolfe and Gandon architects. ... . = Vitruvius Britannicus, ou l'architecte britannique; contenant les plans, elevations et, sections; des batimens reguliers, tant, particuliers que publics, de la Grande Bretagne compris en cent planches gravees en taille douce par les meilleurs maitres, tirees des batimens, ou copiees des desseins originaux. par Messrs. Woolfe et Gandon architectes. ...
Woolfe, John, -1793.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]-71- Books
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The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant: Demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish; illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published; with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate; being not only useful but necessary to all masons, bricklayers, plasterers, carpenters, joiners, and others concerned in the several branches of building, &c. Also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule, to calculated as to render easy the drawing of any figure, architrave, frize, cornice, or moulding, that can be required to any given scale. The whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper-plates, from the designs of William Pain the subjects herein chiefly consist of, I. Of foundations, walls, and their diminutions, fitness of chimneys, and proportion of light to rooms, with the due scantlings of timber to be cut for building, &c ... VIII. Gothic architecture, being a various collection of columns, entablatures, arches, doors, windows, chimney-pieces, and other decorations in that prevailing taste-and it may be noted of these, as of all the foregoing examples, that they are immediately adapted to workmen, and may be executed by the meanest capacity.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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The builder's golden rule, or the youth's sure guide: containing the greatest variety of ornamental and useful designs in architecture and carpentry With the most ready practical Methods of executing the same, from the Plan to the ornamental Finish, in the most prevailing modern Taste. The whole correctly engraved, on 100 copper-plates, with a full explanation in letter-press. To which is added, a list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only, with References to the respective Designs. By William Pain, Author of the British Palladio.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The rudiments of architecture: or, the young workman's instructor. In two parts. Part First, Containing The five Orders of Columns entire, with Frontispieces, Doors, Windows, Porticoes, Intercolumniations, and Arcades, suited to each; Rustic Doors and Windows; Block and Cantaliver Cornices; Rustic Quoins; the manner of constructing Brick and Stone-Arches; Centuring for Groins and Vaulting; Stairs, Twisted Rails, Roofs and Domes; Inspectional Scales, Tables, &c. Directions for Drawing Plans and Elevations with Indian Ink: Likewise, the French and Spanish Orders. Part Second, Containing Geometry; the Mensuration of Solids and Superficies; Plain Trigonometry, and Surveying of Land. With twenty-three elegant designs of buildings, the most of which have been actually executed in North Britain. To which is added, the builder's dictionary: Intended for those whose time will not allow them to attend Teachers.
Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The rudiments of architecture or, The young workman's instructor. In two parts. Part first, containing the five orders of columns entire, with frontispieces, doors, windows, porticoes, intercolumniations, and arcades, suited to each; rustic doors and windows; block and cantaliver cornices; ru...; quoins; the manner of constructing brick and stone arches; centuring for groins and vaulting; stairs, twisted rails, roofs and domes; inspectional scales, tables, &c. Directions for drawing plans and elevations with Indian ink. Likewise, the French and Spanish orders. Part second, containing geometry; the mensuration of solids and superficies; plain trigonometry, and surveying of land. With twenty-four elegant designs of buildings, the most of which have been actually executed in North Britain. To which is added, The builder's dictionary: included for those whose time will not allow them to attend teachers. The third edition, corrected. Illustrated with upwards of three hundred and seventy-three examples, accurately engraven upon fifty large copper-plates.
Date: M.DCC.XCIX. [1799]- Books
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The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant; demonstrating, After the most easy and practical Method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish; Illustrated with a greater Number of useful and familiar Examples than any Work of that Kind hitherto published; With Clear and ample Instructions annexed to each Subject or Number, on the same Plate, with Estimates of Materials and Workmanship; Being not only useful to all Masons, Bricklayers, Plasterers, Carpenters, Joiners, and others concerned in the several Branches of Building, &c. but also necessary for Gentlemen, who will be hereby enabled to know the exact Expence of any Building, Alteration, or Repair. The whole correctly engraved on 92 folio copper-plates, containing upwards of seven hundred designs on the following Subjects, &c. 1. Of Foundations, Walls, and their Diminutions, Fitness of Chimneys, and Proportion of Light to Rooms, with the due Scantlings of Timber to be cut for Buildings, &c. II. Great Variety of Geometrical, Elliptic, and Polygon Figures, with Rules for their Formation, centering of all Sorts for Groins, Brick and Stone Arches, &c. both circular and splayed, also with circular Soflits in a circular Wall; many Examples for Gluing and Vancering Niches, &c. with Rules for tracing the Cover of Curve-Line Roofs, Piers, Vases, Pedestals for Sun-Dials, Busts, &c. and their must suitable Proportions. III. General Directions for framing Floors and Partitions Truss-Roofs, &c. and Methods to find the Length and Backing of Hips, straight or curve Lines to any Pitch, Square, or Bevel. IV. Of Stair-Cases, variously constructed; the Methods of working Ramp and Twist Rails; Profits of Stairs to shew the Manner of setting Carriages for the Steps; also the Framing of String-Boards and Rails, and likewise of fixing them. V. The Five Orders of Architecture from Palladio, with the Rule for gauging Flutes and Fillets on a diminished Column, by a Method extremely easy, and entirely new. VI. Doors, Windows, Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, Cornices, Mouldings, &c. truly proportioned, in a plain and genteel Taste. Vii. Sacred Ornaments, viz. Altar-Pieces, Pulpits, &c. Viii. Gothic Architecture, being a various Collection of Columns, Entablatures, Arches, Doors, Windows, Chimney-Pieces, and other Decorations in that prevailing Taste-And it may be noted of these, as of all the foregoing Examples, that they are immediately adapted to Workmen, and may be executed by the meanest Capacity. IX. Plans and Elevations of elegant Buildings Green-Houses, Hot-Houses, Temples, Seats for Gardens, Parks, &c. By William Pain, Architect and Joiner.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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The theory and practice of gardening: wherein is fully handled all that relates to fine gardens, As Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens, &c. containing divers plans, and general dispositions of gardens; new Designs of Parterres, Groves, Grass-Plots, Mazes, Banqueting-Rooms, Galleries, Portico's, and Summer-Houses of Arbor-Work; Terrasses, Stairs, Fountains, Cascades, and the like Ornaments, of Use in the Decoration and Embellishment of Gardens. With The Manner of laying out the Ground, cutting the Terrasses, and of Drawing and Executing all sorts of Designs, according to the Principles of Geometry. The Method of Planting, and Raising, in little time, all the Plants requisite in Fine Gardens. Also That of discovering Water, conveying it into Gardens, and of making Basons and Fountains for the same. Together with Remarks and general Rules in all that concerns the Art of Gardening. Done from the French original, printed at Paris, anno 1709. By John James of Greenwich.
Dézallier d'Argenville, A.-J. (Antoine-Joseph), 1680-1765.Date: MDCCXII. [1712]