The carpenter's pocket directory; containing, the best methods of framing timber buildings of all figures and dimensions, with their several parts, as floors; roofs in ledgment, their Lengths and Backings; trussed roofs, spires, and domes; Trussing-Girders, Partitions, and Bridges, with Abutments; Centering for Arches, Vaults, &c. cutting Stone Ceilings, Groins, &c. with their Moulds; Centers for drawing Gothic Arches, Ellipses, &c. &c. With the plan and sections of a barn. Engraved on twenty-four plates, with explanations, forming the most complete and useful Work of the Kind yet published. By William Pain, Architect and Carpenter, Author of the Practical Builder, and the Carpenter's and Joiner's Repository

People / Organizations

• William Pain (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for I. Taylor, No. 56, nearly opposite Great Turnstile, Holborn, MDCCLXXXI. [1781]

Publication year

1781

ESTC No.

T118288

Grub Street ID

169839

Description

[28]p.,XXIV plates ; 4°.

Note

Price from imprint: price Four Shillings, bound.