An edition of The country builder's assistant (1797)

The country builder's assistant

containing a collection of new designs of carpentry and architecture which will be particularly useful to country workmen in general : illustrated with new and useful designs of frontispieces, chimney pieces, &c. ... correctly engraved on thirty copper plates, with a printed explanation to each

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Asher Benjamin, Asher Benjamin
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An edition of The country builder's assistant (1797)

The country builder's assistant

containing a collection of new designs of carpentry and architecture which will be particularly useful to country workmen in general : illustrated with new and useful designs of frontispieces, chimney pieces, &c. ... correctly engraved on thirty copper plates, with a printed explanation to each

  • 2 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

This is a pattern book of Federal period moulding and trim styles distributed by Asher Benjamin in 1797. It was a guide for carpenters of the time.

Publish Date
Publisher
By Thomas Dickman
Language
English
Pages
32

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Edition Notes

LC copy has bookplate of Sanford Wallack.
Evans 31797
NUC pre-1956, NB 0310858
Signatures: A-D⁴.
Gift; Alice Wallack; Nov. 24, 1989.

Published in
Printed at Greenfield, Massachusetts

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
720
Library of Congress
NA2520 .B4 1797

The Physical Object

Pagination
[32] p., 30 leaves of plates (2 folded) :
Number of pages
32

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1903109M
LCCN
90105062

First Sentence

"FIGURE A. Scotia ; to draw the curve line of the Scotia, divide the height into three parts ; place one foot of your compaffes in 2, and extend the other to 3, and draw the Arch line 3 b ; then move your compaffes to a, and extend to b, and draw the curve line b, d."

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