The young builder's general instructor : containing the five orders of architecture : selected from the best specimens of the Greek and Roman, with the figured dimensions of their height, projection, and profile, and variety of mouldings, and fancy pilasters, square and circle head front doors, with their ground plans, folding doors, box window frames and shutters, doors, domes, ground arches, niches, stairs, and the various other geometrical problems, directly useful to young workmen : town-houses, churches, court-houses, gentlemen's country seats, and the farmer's cottage, &c., &c. : the whole exemplified on sixty-six elegant copper-plate engravings / by Minard Lafever, architect, and pratical builder in the city of New York.

Main entry:

Lafever, Minard.

Title & Author:

Publication:

Newark, N.J. : Printed by W. Tuttle & Co., 1829.

Description:

175 pages, 66 [i.e. 67] leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings), plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Time table, a practical calculation of time for piece work: p. 165-168.
A useful dictionary for practical workmen: p. 169-173.
Index to the plates: p. 174.
Errata: p. 175.
Engravings signed: Smith, J.F. Morin, R.M. Gaw, Main, Childs.
Shoemaker 39244
Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2584

Subject:

Architecture Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Architecture Orders.
Architecture Designs and plans.
Carpentry.
Architecture Guides, manuels, etc.
Architecture Ordres.
Architecture Dessins et plans.
Charpenterie.
Architecture.

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings.
Handbooks and manuals.

Added entries:

Smith, engraver.
Morin, John F., 1801 or 1802-1840, engraver.
Gaw, Robert M., engraver.
Main, William, 1796-1876, engraver.
Childs, engraver.
United States New Jersey Essex Newark.

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Location: Library main 22166
Call No.: 9140; ID:87-B9126
Status: Available

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