The builder's sketch book or, the youth's pocket companion; containing great variety of out-line sketches in carpentry and architecture. The whole adapted to practice, for the benefit of youth, at their first beginning to draw in architecture. Printed on 48 octvavo copper plates, with full explanations in letter press, to face each plate. To which is added, a list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only. By William Pain

By Pain, William.
London printed for, and sold by the author 1794 .
[42]; [2], 52 p., 48 plates sm. 4o.

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 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.

By Pain, William.
London printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-Street 1771 .
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.) 8o.

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