Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Title:
The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish, illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published, with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate ... : also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule ... : the whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper plates / from the designs of William Pain ...
Published / Created:
London : Printed for the author, and Robert Sayer, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street, MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:
[6], 4 pages, [76] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3456469
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title page printed in black and red.
Subject Terms:
Architecture -- Early works to 1800. | Building -- Early works to 1800. | Carpentry -- Early works to 1800. | Joinery -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- 1758. | Publishers advertisements.
Contributors:
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794, publisher.