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, an 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 : the whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by one hundred and forty-eight copper-plates, with explanations to each

by William Pain

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