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008 850701s1774 enkaef 000 0 eng d
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035 $a(OCoLC)84548343
035 $a54273
035 $a(CMalG)54273-gettydb-Voyager
040 $aCMalG$cCMalG$edcrmb
100 1 $aPain, William,$d1730?-1790?
245 14 $aThe practical builder or, Workman's general assistant :$bshewing 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, strait or curved, trusses for roofs, domes, &c. : trussing of girders, sections of floors, &c. : the proportion of the five orders in their general and particular parts, gluing of columns, stair-cases with their ramp and twist rails, fixing the carriages, newels, &c. : frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, architraves, &c. in the newest taste : with plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, barns, &c. /$cby William Pain, architect and joiner ; engraved on eighty-three plates.
246 30 $aWorkman's general assistant
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted for I. Taylor at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane,$cMDCCLXXIV [1774]
300 $a5, [11] p., LXXXIII leaves of plates :$bill., plans ;$c27 cm (4to)
500 $aFirst edition.
500 $aTaylor's notices, last leaf.
590 $aBinding: leather. Signature of Anthony Bearparke, dated 1810 at Preston.
650 0 $aBuilding$zEngland$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aArchitecture$zEngland$y18th century.
655 7 $aEtchings$zEngland$y18th century.$2aat
700 1 $aTaylor, Isaac,$d1730-1807.
752 $aEngland$dLondon.
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907 1 $bLGET04$d550.00
908 1 $apr/550.00,inv#nnwood850708,invd850708,inrd850826
909 1 $aMR
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947 $aoclc mm 5/97
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981 1 $b1$c08/23/85 REC$dMAIN$eMAIN$i07/01/85 ORD