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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Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
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
London: I. and J. Taylor, 1788
4, 14 pages, 42 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm.
URL to cite for this work: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/DLDecArts.PainPaBritPall
Contents
[Title Page], pp. [1]-[2]
Table of contents, p. 3
Prices for carpenter's day-bills, p. 4
A description of the designs in Pain's British Palladio., pp. 1-7
The description of a gentleman's house, with the elevation, section, and plans of every floor and roof, pp. Plate I-Plate IV
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, pp. Plate V-Plate IX
Designs for chimney-pieces, with the mouldings half-size, pp. Plate X-Plate XI
The description of a town-house, with elevations, sections, and plan of every floor and roof, pp. Plate XII-Plate XV
Designs for chimney-pieces, pp. Pl. XVI-Pl. XXII
Plan and elevation of a gentleman's house, p. Plate XXIII
Plan, elevation, and sections, two ways, shewing the bond-timbers, lintels, &c with plans of every floor, pp. Pl. XXIV-Plate XXVII
Two designs for stairs, p. Pl. XXVIII
Two designs for ceilings, p. Pl. XXIX
Two designs for doors, p. Pl. XXX
The Corinthian cap at large, p. Pl. XXXI
Proportion of the orders, pp. Plate XXXII-Plate XXXIII
Designs for impost, p. Plate XXXIV
Designs for architraves, &c, p. Pl. XXXV
Designs for frieze and cornices, p. Pl. XXXVI
Designs for stair-cases, p. Pl. XXXVII
Groins, angle-brackets, &c, p. Plate 38
Curve-line roofs, circular soffits, &c, p. Plate 39
Stair-case, shewing how to frame the newels, &c, p. Pl. XL
Circular and oval stair-cases, p. Plate 41
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