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]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for I. Taylor, No. 56, nearly opposite Great Turnstile, Holborn, MDCCLXXXI. [1781]
Physical description
[28]p.,XXIV plates ; 40.
Contributors
References note
ESTC T118288
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.