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The town and country builder's assistant: : absolutely necessary to be understood, by builders and workmen in general. Explaining short and easy rules. Made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working, I. The five orders of columns entire ... And to enrich them with their rusticks, flutings, cablings, dentules, modillions, &t. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumnations, portico's and areades. Together with a variety of raking, circular, scrolled, compound, and contracted pedements ... II. Block and cnataliver [sic] cornices, rustick quoins, cornices proportioned to rooms, of any height, angle brackets, mouldings for tabernacle frames, pannelling, and centerting for groins, truffed partitions, girders, roofs and dooms. Also the various methods of forming the heads of circular eliptical niches and buffets, the several kinds of staircases, ... With pulpits, spires for steeples, chimney pieces, Chinese lattice work for gates, pailings &c. The whole illustrated