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, The carpenter's and joiner's repository, and The British Palladio.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Early American imprints. First series ; no. 32627.
Main Author: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Published by J.H. Dobelbower and J. Thackara, 1797.
Series:Early American imprints. no. 32627.
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Physical Description:32 unnumbered pages, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Format: Electronic eBook

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