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Pain, William (1730?-1790?) / The practical house carpenter, or, Youth's instructor containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; the five orders laid down by an entire new scale.
(1792)

Contents [of A List of Prices],   p. 22


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Ditto with strong fir lath and four-penny nails washed for painters, at per
yard 
Floated lath and plaister, set in plaister and putty
Ditto in groins
Lath and plaister in heads of niches per foot
Stucco on bricks per yard
Ditto on lath
Circular ditto
Stucco on laths in pannels
Bead and quirk to quoins per foot run
Plain mouldings 5 inches girth per foot 
Circular ditto
Plain plaister cornices per foot superficial
Dental ditto
Block cornices with leaves in the block and flowers in coffers per foot
Ditto three members enriched, mutules with bells and flowers in coffers per
foot
Plain Ionic modillion-cornice per foot superficial
Ditto two members enriched modillions and flowers in coffers whited per foot
Corinthian cornice plain per foot superficial
Ditto fully enriched from 
Contents
Price of Bricklayers work
Price of Carpenters work
Price of Joiners work
Price of Stair-case work
Price of Sashes and frames
Prices of Wainscot and Mahogany with labour circular mouldings &c
Church work as desks, pews, &c circular and uncircular
Rack and manger, pale fencing, lattice partitions, run of grooving
Oak and fir scantlings
Price of masons work in general
Price of painters, glaziers, plumbers, and smiths work with plaister work
and ornaments


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