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Subject Terms Joinery -- Early works to 1800.

1. The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish, illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published, with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate ... : also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule ... : the whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper plates / from the designs of William Pain ...

The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish, illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published, with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate ... : also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule ... : the whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper plates / from the designs of William Pain ...

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:: [6], 4 pages, [76] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The carpenter's new guide : being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery ... : the whole founded on true geometrical principles : ... and fully exemplified on seventy-eight copper-plates, correctly engraved by the author : including some observations and calculation on the strength of timber / by Peter Nicholson.

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Creator:: Nicholson, Peter, 1765–1844
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: xii, 76 p., [78] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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. : a great variety of staircases, on a plan entirely new, and easy to be understood : circular circular soffits, shewing and winding, in strait and circular walls, groins, angle brackets, circular and elliptical skylights : and the method of squaring and preparing their circular bars, shop-fronts, &c. / by W. Pain, joiner ; engraved on sisty-nine copper-plates.

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Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:: [30] p., LXI leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts