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Pain, William / Architect / circa 1730 to 1790 : William Pain : Pain's British Palladio : Or the Builder's General Assistant : 1788 : Demonstrating in the Most Easy and Practical Method All the Principal Rules of Architecture : From the Ground Plan to the Ornamental Finish

London: I. and J. Taylor at the Architectural Library 1788 / Reprint / FBRE Ltd, A Bound / Flex Cover / REPRINT

Facsimile Bound Reprint Edition / Replica of Origi. Title page continues: illustrated with several new and useful designes of house with their plans, elevations and sections, also clean and ample instructions, annexed to each subject, in letter frefs ; with a list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only. This work will be universally useful to all carpenters, bricklayers, masons, joiners, plasterers, and others, concerned in teh several brances of building , and comprehending the following subjects: plans, elevations, and sections of gentlemen's houses, designs for doors, chimneys and ceilings with their proper embellishments, in the most modern taste, a great variety of mouldings for base and surface architraves, imposts, friezes and cornices, with their proper ornaments, for practice, drawn to half size: to which are added scales for enlarging or lessening at pleasure; also, great variety of stair cases, shewing the practical method of executing them, in any case required, groins, angle brackets, circular circular flewing and winding, soffits, domes, sky lights etc, all made plain and easy to the meanest capacity; the proportion of windows for the light to rooms, preparing foundations, the proportions of chimneys to rooms and sections of flews; the principal timbers properly laid out on each plan, the manner of framing the roofs, and finding the length and backing of hips, either square or bevel, scantlings of the timbers, figured in proportion to their bearing, the method for trussing girders, scarfing plates etc, and many other articles, particularly useful to all persons in the building profession. The whole correctly engraved on 42 folio copper plantes from the original designs of William and James Pain. 64 pages. Paperback : soft cover reprint edition in very good or better condition, some slight wear to edges, as normal for age of book. Overall good copy of this title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Illustrations are in black and white. Limited edition, no 87 of 250 copies. Illustr.: Fully Illustrated. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket: No Dust Jacket

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