The British carpenter, or, A treatise on carpentry : containing the most concise and authentick rules of that art, in a more useful and extensive method, than has been made publick
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Type of record: Book
Title: The British carpenter, or, A treatise on carpentry : containing the most concise and authentick rules of that art, in a more useful and extensive method, than has been made publick
Other titles: Treatise on carpentry
Classmark: Bedford Collection A057
Creator(s): Price, Francis (1753)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Pain, George Richard (1793-1838) (Former owner)
Related people: Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580
Publisher: Printed by C. Ackers in St. John's-Street; and sold by the Author, in Mount-Street, near Grosvenor Square; also by A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch at the Red-Lion in Pater-Noster-Row; and T. Astley at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-Yard
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1735
Language: English
Size and medium: 4 unnumbered pages, ii, 4 unnumbered pages, 52 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 16 pages, 62 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721830
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991015979119705181
Description
Two plates fold out from pp. 5 and 41 (fourth group).
"A supplement to The British carpenter : containing Palladio's orders of architecture, with the ornaments of doors and windows..." (p. [4], 16 at end) has separate title page, pagination and register, and engraved half-title by WH Toms.
Frontispiece describing recommendation of N. Hawksmoor, Inigo Jones and James Gibbs for this work also engraved by Toms.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A057: contemporary calf, gold tooled, re-backed.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A057: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: Ao/1. Nineteenth-century pictorial bookplate of half ion rampant on front pastedown: George Richd Pain [i.e. George Richard Pain (1793-1838), architect, grandson of William Pain, son of James Pain, brother of James Pain].
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