The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer : Explaining short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working. : I. The five orders of columns entire; or any part of an order, without regard to the module or diameter. And to enrich them with their rusticks, flutings, cablings, dentules, modilions, &c. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumniations, porticoes, and arcades. Together with fourteen varieties of raking, circular, scrolled, compound, and contracted pediments; and the true formation and accadering of their raking and returned cornices; and mouldings for capping their dentules and modilions. : II. Block and cantiliver cornices, rustick quoins, cornices proportioned to rooms, angle brackets, mouldings for tabernacle frames, pannelling, and centering for groins, trussed partitions, girders, roofs, and domes. With a section of the dome of St. Paul's, London. : The whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, engraved on 100 copper plates. /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | The first American edition. |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 37778. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | Advertised as "just published" in the Salem Gazette, March 7, 1800. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | iv, 5-46 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 99 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm. (1sexto) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Massachusetts -- Charlestown. United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston. |