The practical builder or workman's general assistant; shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building; ... rules of carpentry, ... Frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings ... in the newest taste; with plans and elevations ... The fourth edition; revised and corrected by the author, William Pain, ... Engraved on eighty-three plates.

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