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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, ... With plans and elevations of gentlemans and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1774.
Call number: 348774
Creator: Pain, William (1730?-1790?)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (4to)
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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, ... With plans and elevations of gentlemans and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c

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Bicknell's village builder : elevations and plans for cottages, villas, suburban residences, farm houses [etc.] ... also exterior and interior details for public and private buildings, with approved forms of contracts and specifications. Containing fifty-five plates drawn to scale