Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish ; illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published ; with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate ; being not only useful but necessary to all ... concerned in the several branches of building, &c. : also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule ; so calculated as to render easy the drawing of any figure ... that can be required to any given scale. The whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper plates, from the designs of William Pain. The subjects herein chiefly consist of, I. ... foundations, walls and their dimensions ... II. Great variety of geometrical, elliptic, and polygon figures, with rules for their formation ... III. General directions for framing floors and partitions, truss-roofs, &c. ... IV. Of stair-cases ... V. The five orders of architecture from Palladio ... VI. Doors, windows, frontispieces, chimney-pieces, cornices, mouldings, &c. ... VII. Sacred ornaments ... VIII. Gothic architecture ...

London : Printed for the author, and Robert Sayer, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street, MDCCLVI [1758]

1 preliminary leaf, [3], 81 pages including 77 plates : folio

Architecture Early works to 1800.
Building.
Construction.
constructions (sculpture)
Architecture.

Early works.

American architectural books supplement : based on the Helen Park list.

Localisation: Bibliothèque study room microform 47296
Cote: ID87B7159s124 MFM; ID:89-B6508
Statut: Disponible