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 jambs, the preparing and making their soffits. : Rules of carpentry; to find the length and backing of hips, straight or curved; trusses for roofs, doomes [as printed], &c. trussing of girders, sections of floors, &c. The proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts:--glewing of columns, stair-cases with their ramp and twist rails; fixing the carriages, newels, &c. frontispas printed.

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Main Author: Pain, William, 1730?-1790? (Engraver)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Edition:The fourth edition, /
Series:Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 25956.
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