The builder's pocket-treasure; or, Palladio delineated and explained, in such a manner as to render that most excellent author plain and intelligible to the meanest capacity
| Publication Date | 1789 |
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| Remainder | in which not only the theory, but the practical part of architecture has been carefully attended to. Illustrated with new and useful designs of frontispieces, chimney-pieces, &c. with their bases, capitals, and entablatures, at large for practice; architrave frontispieces, cornices, and mouldings for the inside of rooms, &c. the construction of stairs, with their ramp and twist rails; framing of floors, roofs, and partitions; with the method of finding the lengths and backing of hips streight or curvi-linear; the tracing of groins, angle-brackets, splay'd or circular soffits; with plans and elevations of a dwelling house, hot-house, garden temple, seat and bridge; and a table of scantlings for cutting timber for building. The whole neatly and correctly engraved on forty-four copper plates, with printed explanations to face each plate. By William Pain. Engraved by Isaac Taylor. A new edition, with an appendix of eleven copper plates, with explanations |
| Extent | iv, [1], 1, 3-4, 6-7, 10-11, 14-15, 21-22, 25-26, 32-35, 47-48, 52-53, 56-57, 61-63, [1], [69]-70, 73-76, 78-79, 81-82, 85-[86], 89-90 p., 55 plates (27 fold.) |
| Location | London |
| Publisher | printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-Street |
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- BRID1 - Bride Lane - bridge
- FLEE6 - Fleet Street
- FLEE6 - Fleet Street - Fleet Street
- LOND1 - London Bridge - bridge
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