The practical house carpenter; or, Youth's instructor : containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; as centering for groins, niches, &c. Examples for roofs, sky lights, &c. The five orders laid down by a new scale. Mouldings, &c. at large, with their enrichments. Plans, elevations and sections of houses for town and country, lodges, hot-houses, green-houses, stables, &c. Design for a church, with plan, elevation, and two sections; and altar-piece, and pulpit. Designs for chimney-pieces, shop-fronts, door-cases. Section of a dining-room and library. Variety of stair-cases, with many other important articles, and useful embellishments. : To which is added, a list of the price of carpenters' work. : The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper plates, with explanations to each, /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | The first American from the fifth London edition, with additions. |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 30940. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | With 146 numbered plates; two additional plates face plates 3 and 65. Bookseller's advertisement, pages [8], 2nd count. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 16, 7 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 146 [i.e., 148] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 24 cm. (quarto) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston. |