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The carpenter's pocket directory; containing the best methods of framing timber buildings of all figures and dimensions, with their several parts: as floors, roofs in ledgment, their lengths and backings; trussed roofs, spires, and domes; trussinggirders, partitions, and bridges, with abutments; centering for arches, vaults, &c. cutting stone ceilings, groins, &c. with their moulds; centers for drawing Gothic arches, ellipses, &c. &c. With the plan and sections of a barn. Engraved on 24 plates, with explanations, forming the most complete and useful work of the kind yet published.
Author
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
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English
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New ed.
Published/Created
London, I. and J. Taylor, 1792.
Description
76 unnumbered pages 24 plates, table
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Marquand Library - Rare Books
TH2301 .P346 1792
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Architecture
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Early works to 1800
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Princeton copy has: "Jeremiah Frankham, his book" in calligraphy on t.p.
OCLC
11766314
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