The practical house carpenter; or, youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; As Centring 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; an 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 prices for materials and labour, labour only, and day prices. 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
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Type of record: Book
Title: The practical house carpenter; or, youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; As Centring 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; an 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 prices for materials and labour, labour only, and day prices. 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
Classmark: Bedford Collection A053
Publisher: printed for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, No. 59, High Holborn
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1799
Language: English
Size and medium: v,[31]; 24p., plates(some fold.)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721801
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019766249305181
Description
A list of prices, for materials and labour, and labour only,.. By William Pain .. 1799 has its own pagination and register.
Bedford copy A053 has advertisement for A catalogue of modern books on architecture by J. Taylor, Jan, 2, 1803, with separate pagination, 4 pages, at end.
Plates numbered to 146, but are complete.
The plates where dated are either 1789 or 1791.
Vertical chainlines.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A053: re-backed, contemporary calf, gold tooled edge.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A053: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: HC/7. Nineteenth-century MS. inscription on front flyleaf: Robert Parker His Book. MS. annotation on front pastedown: [price]18/0[?]. Red inkstamp on front pastedown: Gerald Forsyth.
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