The builder's assistant : fully explaining, the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings: for drawing and working the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders ... architraves for doors ... cornices ... chimney-pieces ... the construction of stairs ... plan, elevation and section of a meeting-house ... plans and elevations of houses ... the best method ... also the tracing of groins, angle brackets, circular sockets in circular walls, &c. ... / by Asher Benjamin.

Main entry:

Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

Title & Author:

Edition:

3rd ed.

Publication:

Greenfield, Mass. : Printed by Thomas Dickman, 1800.

Description:

34 pages, 37 plates : illustrations

Notes:
Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1971. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (American architectural books : based on the Henry-Russell Hitchcock bibliography ; reel 8, no. 113).

Subject:

Moldings.
Architecture Details.
Moulures.
Architecture Détails.
moldings (object components)

Added entries:

American architectural books : based on the Henry-Russell Hitchcock bibliography.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room microform 48395
Call No.: ID87B7159s8 MFM; ID:89-B7444
Status: Available

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