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041 0 _aeng
100 1 _aPain, William
_d1730?-1790
245 0 4 _aThe 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
_bin 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.
260 _aLondon
_bprinted for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-Street
_cM.DCC.LXXI. [1771]
300 _aiv, [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.)
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583 _aCondition reviewed
_c20120620
_lcondition level 1
651 4 _aGreat Britain
_y1707-
690 _aDesign and specification
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