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The Country Builder's Assistant - Containing a Collection of New Designs of Carpentry and Architecture; Which Will be Particularly Useful to Country Workmen in General. (Paperback)
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The Country Builder's Assistant - Containing a Collection of New Designs of Carpentry and Architecture; Which Will be Particularly Useful to Country Workmen in General. (Paperback)
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Loot Price R503
Discovery Miles 5 030
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Originally published in 1797, this was the bible of the building
trade in New England during the beginning of the nineteenth
century. The book was the first American-grown collection of
designs published in America, and through its publication, Asher
Benjamin popularized an American style of architecture. Illustrated
with new and useful designs of; Frontispieces, Chimney Pieces,
Tuscan, Doric, Ionie and Corinthian Orders with their Bases,
Capitals and Entablatures: Architraves for Doors, Window and
Chimneys: Cornices, Base and Surface Mouldings for Rooms: Doors and
Sashes with their Mouldings: The Construction of Stairs with their
Ramp and Twist Rails: Plan, Elevation and one section of a Meeting
House with the Pulpit at Large: Plans and Elevations of Houses. The
Best Method of finding the Length and backing of Hip Rafters: Also,
the tracing of Groins, Angle Brackets, Circular Soffits in Circular
Walls. Correctly engraved on thirty copper plates: with a printed
explanation to each.
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