Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.
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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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A supplement to The builder's golden rule: engraved on thirty-four folio copper-plates. By William Pain, Author of the Builder's Golden Rule, and other Pieces
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]- E-books
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Pain's British palladio: or, The builder's general assistant . Demonstrating, in the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the ground plan to the ornamental finish. Illustrated with several new and useful designs of houses, with their plans, elevations, and sections. Also, clear and ample instructions annexed to each subject, in letter-press; with a list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only. This work will be universally useful to all carpenters, bricklayers, masons, joiners, plaisterers, and other concerned in the several branches of building, &c. comprehending the following subjects, viz. Plans, elevations, and sections of gentlemen's houses. designs for doors, chimneys, and ceilings, with their proper embellishments, in the most modern taste. A great variety of mouldings, for base and surbase architraves, imposts, friezes and cornices, with their proper ornaments, for practice, drawn to half-size: to which are added, scales for enlarging or lessening at pleasure. Also, great variety of stair-cases; shewing the practical method of executing them, in any case required, viz. groins, angle-brackets, circular flewing and winding soffits, domes, sky-lights, &c. all made plain and easy to the meanest capacity. The proportion of windows for the light to rooms. Preparing foundations; the proportion of chimneys to rooms, and sections of flews. The principal timbers properly laid out, on each plan, viz. the manner of framing the roofs, and finding the length and backing of hips, either square or bevel. Scantlings of the timbers, figured in proportion to their bearing. The method for trussing girders, scarsing plates, &c. And many other articles, particularly useful to all persons in the building profession. The whole correctly engraved on forty-two folio copper-plates, from the original designs of William and James Pain.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- E-books
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The builder's golden rule , or the youth's sure guide: containing the greatest variety of ornamental and useful designs in architecture and carpentry With the most ready practical Methods of executing the same, from the Plan to the ornamental Finish, in the most prevailing modern Taste. The whole correctly engraved, on 100 copper-plates, with a full explanation in letter-press. To which is added, a list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only, with References to the respective Designs. By William Pain, Author of the British Palladio.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- E-books
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The builder's golden rule , or the youth's sure guide: containing the greatest variety of ornamental and useful designs in architecture and carpentry, With the most ready practical Methods of executing the same, from the Plan to the Ornamental Finish, in the most prevailing modern Taste. The whole correctly engraved, on 106 copper-plates, with a full Explanation in Letter-Press. To which is added, An estimate of prices for materrals and labour, and Labour only, with References to the respective Designs. By William Pain, Author of the Practical Builder, &c.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]