The Practical House Carpenter; or the Youth's Instructor. Containing a great
variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; the five orders
laid down by an entire new scale; with frontispieces, stair-cases, and mouldings
at large, for practice, with their proper Embellishments; plans, elevations,
and sections for town and country houses; hot houses, green houses, coach
houses, and stables; a design for a church, plan, elevation, and section,
two ways, with an altar piece and pulpit. Two designs for gateways and lodges,
designs for chimney-pieces, vases, shop-fronts, a finished section of a dining-room
and library, with several other embellishments, ceilings, &c. to which
is added, a list of prices for materials and labour and labour only. The
whole printed on one hundred and forty-six quarto copper plates. With explanations
to face each plate. By William Pain, author of The Golden Rule and British
Palladio. The fourth edition, with large additions. London: printed for the
author, no. 12, Fisher Street, Red Lion Square, Holborn. M. DCC. XCII. [Price
in sheets or bound] N.B. This work is approved by upwards of four hundred
subscribers.