The builder's pocket-treasure; or, Palladio delineated and explained, In such a Manner as to render that most excellent Author plain and intelligible to the meanest Capacity, in which not only the Theory, but the Practical Part of Architecture has been carefully attended to. Illustrated with new and useful designs of frontispieces, chimney-pieces. &c. their Bases, Capitals, and Entablatures, at large for Practice; Architrave Frontispieces, Cornices, and Mouldings for the Inside of Rooms, &c. the Construction of Stairs, with their Ramp and twist Rails; framing of Floors, Roofs, and Partitions; with the Method of finding the Length and Backing of Hips, streight or curvi-linear; the tracing of Groins, Angle-Brackets, splay'd or circular Soffits; besides Plans and Elevations of a Dwelling-House, Hot-House, Garden Temple, Seat and Bridge; and a table of scantlings for cutting Timber for Building. The whole neatly and correctly engraved on forty-four copper plates. With printed Explanations to

People / Organizations

• William Pain (Author)
• William Owen ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-Street, M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785] A new edition, with an appendix of eleven copper plates, and explanations.; ..

Publication year

1785

ESTC No.

T118285

Grub Street ID

169837

Description

iv,[2],90p.,55plates ; 8°.

Note

The verso of the third leaf is numbered 1

Some plates are included in the pagination

Final plate is also numbered as page 92

Price from imprint: price Eight Shillings bound.