The town and country builder's assistant : absolutely necessary to be understood, by builders and workmen in general. Explaining short and easy rules. Made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working ... The whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, engraved on 60 folio copper-plates / by a lover of architecture.

Main entry:

Norman, John, 1748?-1817, engraver.

Title & Author:

Publication:

Boston, N.E. : Engraved, printed and sold by J. Norman, architect engraver at his shop near the Boston-Stone, [1786]

Description:

[2], 13, [1] pages, 61 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 32 cm

Notes:
"I. The five orders of columns entire: or any part of an order, without regard to the module or diameter. And to enrich them with their rusticks, flutings, cablings, dentules, modillions, &c. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumnations, portico's and arcades. Together with a variety of raking, circular, scrolled, compound, and contracted pedements; and the true formation and acadering of their raking and returned cornices; and mouldings for capping their dentules and modillions. II. Block and cnataliver [sic] cornices, rustick quoins, cornices proportioned to rooms, of any height, angle brackets, mouldings for tabernacle frames, pannelling, and centering for groins, trussed partitions, girders, roofs and dooms. Also the various methods of forming the heads of circular eliptical niches and buffets, the several kinds of staircases, to form the arch, or mould, to the hand-rail of a pair of stairs, which is the circular, part of the two first steps, so as to make it stand perpendicular over the ground, or plan, and the manner of squaring the rail without setting it up in its position. With pulpits, spires for steeples, chimney pieces, Chinese lattice-work for gates, pailings &c."
"Published March 15th. 1786"--Frontis.

Subject:

Architecture Early works to 1800.
Building Early works to 1800.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
Construction Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture.
Building.

Form/genre:

Early works.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 29483
Call No.: W9322
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library cage m 29484
Call No.: 5722
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

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