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The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant: shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building. Rules of carpentry. With plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. By William Pain, architect and joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.

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GUSN

GUSN-151144

Description

3 p. ¾., LXXXIII pl. (incl. diagrs) 27 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Architecture Early works to 1800.
Building.

Originator

Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

Publication

London, I. Taylor

Description

3 p. ¾., LXXXIII pl. (incl. diagrs) 27 cm.

Notes

Plates 4, 6, 9, 13, 14, 26 and 69 accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.

Call Number

Rare Browne NA2515.P185

Edition

6th rev. ed.

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