The carpenter's pocket directory : containing the best methods of framing timber buildings of all figures and dimensions, with their several parts ... with the plan and sections of a barn : engraved on twenty-four plates, with explanations, forming the most complete and useful work of the kind yet published / by William Pain.

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Edition:

New ed.

Publication:

London : J. Taylor, 1803 ([London] : W. Stratford)

Description:

[26] pages, 24 leaves of plates : plans ; 21 cm

Notes:
" ... as floors; roofs in ledgment, their lengths and backings; trussed roofs, spires, and domes; trussing-girders, 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. ..."

Resources:
Connect online to the Making of the Modern World (The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)

Subject:

Framing (Building)
Carpentry.
Architecture England Designs and plans.
Architecture England Details.
Barns Design and construction.
Charpenterie.
Architecture Angleterre Dessins et plans.
Architecture Angleterre Détails.
Architecture.
Architecture Details.
England.

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 37508
Call No.: ID88B8448 5; ID:88-B8448
Status: Available

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