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The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant; demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish;... The whole correctly engraved on 92 folio copper-plates, ... By William Pain, Architect and Joiner

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A612

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Type of record: Book

Title: The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant; demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish;... The whole correctly engraved on 92 folio copper-plates, ... By William Pain, Architect and Joiner

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A612

Publisher: printed for Robert Sayer, Map and Printseller, at the Golden-Buck, near Serjeant's Inn, Fleet-street

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1765

Language: English

Size and medium: [4],4,*10pages.,plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729098

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019751445505181

Description

The plates are numbered 5-92.


Indexed in: ESTC

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Leeds University Library copy at A612: modern [20th century] half sheep, orange marbled paper over boards, gold tooled on spine.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A612: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: Ao/9.

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