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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 ... : the whole correctly engraved on forty-two folio copper-plates
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- Date
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- 1788
- Publisher
- London: I. and J. Taylor
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- Other Titles
- British Palladio
- The builder's general assistant
- Author
- Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
- Publisher
- London: I. and J. Taylor
- Date
- 1788
- Description of Original
- 4, 14 pages, 42 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm.
- Format
- Text
- Language
- English
- [Cover]
- [Title Page]
- Table of contents
- Prices for carpenter's day-bills
- A description of the designs in Pain's British Palladio.
- Estimate of prices, for materials and labour, and labour only, adapted to the designs in Pain's British Palladio
- The description of a gentleman's house, with the elevation, section, and plans of every floor and roof
- The description of a gentleman's house, with the elevation and section, two ways, and the plans of every floor, section of flews and roof
- Designs for chimney-pieces, with the mouldings half-size
- The description of a town-house, with elevations, sections, and plan of every floor and roof
- Designs for chimney-pieces
- Plan and elevation of a gentleman's house
- Plan, elevation, and sections, two ways, shewing the bond-timbers, lintels, &c with plans of every floor
- Two designs for stairs
- Two designs for ceilings
- Two designs for doors
- The Corinthian cap at large
- Proportion of the orders
- Designs for impost
- Designs for architraves, &c
- Designs for frieze and cornices
- Designs for stair-cases
- Groins, angle-brackets, &c
- Curve-line roofs, circular soffits, &c
- Stair-case, shewing how to frame the newels, &c
- Circular and oval stair-cases
- The hand-rail and curtail-step stretched out preparing foundations, and the proportion of lights to rooms the proportion of chimneys
- A catalogue of modern books on architecture, &c
- [Cover]