Carpentry - Early works to 1800
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The carpenter's and joiner's repository or, a new system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, cornices & mouldings, For Finishing of Rooms, &c. &c. a Great Variety of Stair-Cases, On a Plan entirely New, and easy to be understood. Circular Circular Soffits, flewing and winding, in straight and circular Walls, Groins, Angle Brackets, circular and elliptical Sky-Lights; and the Method of Squaring and Preparing their circular Bars, Shop Fronts, &c. By W. Pain, joiner. Engraved on sixty-nine copper-plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- E-books
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The builder's price-book containing a correct list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London, to the several artificers concerned in building. Including the journeymen's prices. The seventh edition corrected. By an experienced surveyor.
Experienced surveyorDate: 1789- E-books
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The builder's guide , shewing, the qualities, quantities, proportions, and Rates or Value of all materials relating to building; with the best Method of preparing many of them. Also The Customs and Methods of Measuring of all Artificers Work concerned in Building; the Prices not only of Workmanship but of Materials; which will be extraordinarily useful in making of Bargains between the Undertaker and Workman: With Gunter's Line, Coggeshall's Description of the Sliding-Rule, the Extraction and Uses of the Square and Cube Roots, &c. Together with aphorisms or necessary rules in building, as to Situation, Contrivance, Compactness, Uniformity, Conveniency, Firmness, Form, &c. To which is added, the ground rules of architecture. Likewise, an explanation of technical terms used in this work. By F. P. builder.
Pitt, M.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- E-books
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The builder's price-book containing a correct list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London, to the several artificers concerned in building. Collected by an experienced surveyor.
Experienced surveyorDate: [1776]- E-books
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The carpenter's pocket directory containing, the best methods of framing timber buildings of all figures and dimensions, with their several parts, 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. 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, Architect and Carpenter, Author of the Practical Builder, and the Carpenter's and Joiner's Repository.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]