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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; The Use of 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 strait or curved; Trusses for Roofs, Domes, &c. Trussing of Girders, Sections of Floors, &c. The Proportion of the Five Orders in their general and particular Parts: Gluing 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. The fifth edition; revised and corrected by the author, William Pain, Architect and Joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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Useful and ornamental designs in architecture. Composed in the manner of the antique, and most approved taste of the present day. The whole being peculiarly adapted for execution. By Richard Morrison, architect.
Morrison, Richard, 1767-1849.Date: 1793- Books
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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 James, the preparing and making their Soffits. Rules of Carpentry; To find the Length and Backing of Hips, strait or curved; Trusses for Roofs, Domes, &c. - Trussing of Girders, Sections of Floors, &c. The Proportion of the Five Orders, in their general and particular Parts, Gluing 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 gentlemans and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. By William Pain, Architect and Joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The builder's director, or bench-mate: being a pocket treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture, Made easy to the meanest Capacity by near 500 Examples, Improved from the best Authors, Ancient and Modern, Of Pedestals, Bases, Shafts, Capitals, Columns, Architraves, Freezes, Brackets, Cornices, Arches, Imposts, Key-Stones, Trusses, Moldings of Raking Pediments, Frontispieces. Portico's, Arcades, Colonades, Chimney-Pieces, Fretts, Guilochi's, Groins, Weatherings, Moldings for Tabernacles, Frames, &c. proportioned By Minutes and by Equal Parts, The like never before Published. Engraved on 184 Copper Plates. Wherein The Orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous Measures. Written for the Use of Gentlemen delighting in True Architecture; and for Masters and Workmen to Draw from and Work after. By Batty Langley, architect.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1747- Books
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Designs for gates. Ornamental iron work, or designs in the present taste, for fan-lights, stair-case-railing, window-guard-irons, lamp-irons, palisades, & gates. With a scheme for adjusting designs with facility and accuracy to any slope. Engraved on twenty one plates.
Date: [1773?]