The practical house carpenter; or, Youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; as centering for groins, niches, &c. Examples for roofs, sky lights, &c. The five orders laid down by a new scale. Mouldings, &c. at large, with their enrichments. Plans, elevations and sections of houses for town and country, lodges, hot-houses, green-houses, stables, &c. Design for a church, with plan, elevation, and two sections; and altar-piece, and pulpit. Designs for chimney-pieces, shop-fronts, door-cases. Section of a dining-room and library. Variety of stair-cases, with many other important articles, and useful embellishments. To which is added, a list of the price of carpenters' work. The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper plates, with explanations to each, by William Pain, author of the practical builder, and British palladio.

People / Organizations

• William Norman ("printed by and for", or "by/for and sold by")
• William Pain (Author)

Imprint

Boston: Printed and sold by William Norman, bookseller and stationer, no. 75, Newbury-Street, 1796.

Added name

Pain, William, 1730?-1790?, engraver. Norman, William, d. 1807, printer.

Publication year

1796

ESTC No.

W27791

Grub Street ID

337906

Description

16,7,[1]p., 146[i.e., 148]leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 4⁰

Note

With 146 numbered plates; two additional plates face plates 3 and 65.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [8], 2nd count.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: [A]? B? A?