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 106 copper-plates, with a full Explanation in Letter-Press. To which is added, An estimate of prices for materrals and labour, and Labour only, with References to the respective Designs. By William Pain, Author of the Practical Builder, &c.

  • Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.
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M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]
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London : printed for the author, by H. D. Steel, Number 51, Lothburt, near Coleman-Street, M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]

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[2],iii,[1],18;[2],58p.,plates ; 80.

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The second edition.

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ESTC T94066

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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