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    The Practical Builder: The Classic 18th-Century Handbook
    The Practical Builder: The Classic 18th-Century Handbook
    The Practical Builder: The Classic 18th-Century Handbook
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    The Practical Builder: The Classic 18th-Century Handbook

    By William Pain

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    This 1774 guidebook for English carpenters was one of the earliest "do-it-yourself" manuals ever published. The builders' manuals and pattern books of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries offered carpenters and other construction workers important resources for designs and techniques. Those unable to afford an architect's services could feel confident in the good taste of their residence by selecting designs from a pattern book. Employing elementary arithmetic and geometry, the guide's annotated and meticulously rendered engravings depict cross-sections of chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, and other architectural details.
    William Pain's manual was one of the earliest such works published in the United States. Printed in Philadelphia in 1797, it helped standardize key aspects of Federal architecture and served as a model for construction at George Washington's Mount Vernon home. Reprinted from an original 1774 edition, this is the only available version of a splendid reference for architectural historians and those with an interest in classical architecture.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateSep 26, 2013
    ISBN9780486320618
    The Practical Builder: The Classic 18th-Century Handbook

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      The Practical Builder - William Pain

      THE

      PRACTICAL

      BUILDER

      The Classic 18th-Century Handbook

      William Pain

      Dover Publications, Inc.

      Mineola, New York

      Bibliographical Note

      The Practical Builder: The Classic 18th-Century Handbook, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2013, is an unabridged republication of The Practical Builder, or Workman’s General Assistant, originally published by I. Taylor, London, in 1774. All of the plates reproduced here have been enlarged to 115% of their original size, with the exception of plates XXIX, LXV, LXVI, LXVIII, and LXIX, which are shown only slightly larger than they were originally.

      International Standard Book Number

      eISBN-13: 978-0-486-32061-8

      Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

      49841701

      www.doverpublications.com

      PREFACE.

      COnsidering the Number of Books on the Theory and Practice of Architecture already published, any further Effort to illustrate and familiarize this MOST NOBLE A RT , may seem superfluous and unnecessary; in me especially, who, by two former Publications, endeavoured to advance the young Practitioner in the Knowledge of his Profession.

      But as Art is improving, greater Experience enables to discern the truly useful, and thereby to confirm or reject, former Methods.

      The very great Revolution (as I may say) which of late has so generally prevailed in the Stile of Architecture, especially in the decorative and ornamental Department, will evince the Necessity and eminent Utility of this Publication. That Taste (fo conspicuous in our modern Buildings) which is vainly fought in any other practical Treatife, the Workman will here find illustrated in a great Variety of useful and elegant Examples.

      The Desiciencies and confined Plans of those Books now used by Workmen, is another Inducement to collect together in one View, the most easy and certain Rules to carry on the Building Art. These are the Result of

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