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

The country builder's assistant

fully explaining, the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings : for drawing and working the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders ... plans and elevations of houses ... also, the tracing of groins, angle brackets, circular soffits in circular walls, &c. : correctly engraved on thirty-seven copperplates 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

fully explaining, the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings : for drawing and working the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders ... plans and elevations of houses ... also, the tracing of groins, angle brackets, circular soffits in circular walls, &c. : correctly engraved on thirty-seven copperplates with a printed explanation to each

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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
Printed by Spotswood and Etheridge, for the author, Sold by him, and by Alexander Thomas, Worcester
Language
English
Pages
37

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Subjects

Architecture, Carpentry, Early works to 1800, Building, Designs and plans, Details, Drawings, Natural history, Naturhistoria, Construction workers

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The country builder's assistant: fully explaining, the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings ...
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Cover of: The country builder's assistant
The country builder's assistant: fully explaining, the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings : for drawing and working the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders ... plans and elevations of houses ... also, the tracing of groins, angle brackets, circular soffits in circular walls, &c. : correctly engraved on thirty-seven copperplates with a printed explanation to each
1798, Printed by Spotswood and Etheridge, for the author, Sold by him, and by Alexander Thomas, Worcester
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Edition Notes

Evans 33399
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ E².
LC copy imperfect: explanatory text for plates 9-10, 17-18, 29-33 wanting; plate 33 mutilated.

Published in
Boston
Genre
Early works to 1800.

Classifications

Library of Congress
NA2515, NA2520 .B4

The Physical Object

Pagination
[36] p., 37 leaves of plates :
Number of pages
37

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL241382M
LCCN
ca17001751
Library Thing
1258294

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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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