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Date 1774

Image Use Under Certain Circumstances

Subject Terms Architecture -- Details -- Early works to 1800.

1. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as the use of the tramel for groins, angle-brackets, niches, &c. semi-circular arches on flewing jambs, the preparing and making their soffits : rules of carpentry, to find the length and backing of hips, strait or curves, trusses for roofs, domes &c., trussing of girders, sections of flooors, &c. : the proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts, gluing of columns, stair-cases with their ramp and twist rails, fixing the carriages, newels, &c. : frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, architraves, &c. in the newest taste : with plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. / by William Pain, architect and joiner ; engraved on eighty-three plates.

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Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Physical Description:: [16] p., LXXXIII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A supplement to the builder's jewel ... : illustrated by upwards of 132 examples, engraved on 44 copper-plates.

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Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 36 p., [43] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer : explaining, short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working ... / by B. and T. Langley.

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Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 32 p., [100] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The gentleman and farmer's architect : a new work, containing a great variety of useful and genteel designs : being correct plans and elevations of parsonage and farm houses, lodges for parks, pinery, peach, hot and green houses, with the fire-wall, tan-pit, &c. particularly described : dutch, and other barns, cow-houses, stables, sheep-cots, huts, facades : with all offices appertaining to a well regulated farm : their situations rendered convenient, and aspects agreeable : with scales and tables of reference, describing the several parts, with their just dimensions and use / designed and drawn by T. Lightoler, Architect ; and well engraved on twenty-five folio copper plates.

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Creator:: Lightoler, T. (Timothy), 18th cent
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 25 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts