The carpenter and joiner's assistant. Being a comprehensive treatise on the selection, preparation, and strength of materials, and the mechanical principles of framing, with their application in carpentry, joinery, and hand-railing; also, a course of instruction in practical geometry, geometrical lines, drawing, projection, and perspective; and an illustrated glossary of terms used in architecture and building.

Carpentry and contracting; a practical reference work on carpentry, building superintendence, etc.,

American Technical Society.

January 1919

"Authorities consulted," at beginning of each volume.I. Carpentry, stair building, steel square, pla...

The American builder's companion; or, A system of architecture, particularly adapted to the present style of building ... Illustrated with fifty nine copperplate engravings.

Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.
Wightman, Thomas.
Snyder, Henry W., -1832?
Raynerd, Daniel.
Fox, Gilbert, 1776-1807?

April 1816

Some plates signed by Gilbert Fox, H.W. Snyder or Thomas Wightman as etchers. They are after drawing...

Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry and building; a general reference work...

American School (Lansing, Ill.)

Bibliography: v. 8, p [305]-311.v. 1. Superintendence. Contracts. Specifications. Building law.--v. ...

The American house carpenter : a treatise on the art of building : comprising styles of architecture, strength of materials and the theory and practice of the construction of floors, framed girders, roof trusses, rolled-iron beams, tubular-iron girders, cast-iron girders, stairs, doors, windows, mouldings, and cornices : together with a compend of mathematics /

Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879.
Hatfield, O. P.

"A manual for the practical use of architects, carpenters, stair-builders, and others."Includes inde...

Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... /

American Technical Society.

"Authorities consulted" at beginning of each volume.Other editions have been published by the Americ...

The carpenter and joiner's assistant : containing practical rules for making all kinds of joints, and various methods of hingeing them together, for hanging of doors on straight or circular plans, for fitting up windows and shutters to answer various purposes, with rules for hanging them ... to which are added, examples of various roofs executed, with the scantlings, from actual measurements : with rules for mortices and tenons, and for fixing iron straps, &c. : also extracts from M. Belidor, M. du Hamel, M. de Buffon, &c. on the strength of timber, with practical observations : illustrated with seventy-nine plates, and copious explanations /

Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.
I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)

January 1797

Two folded leaves of publisher's announcements bound in at end.Signatures: A⁶ B-K⁴.Mode of access: I...

The American house-carpenter; a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows, and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry. By R. G. Hatfield.

Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879.

January 1852

5th ed., with additions. Illustrated by more than three hundred engravings.xii, 272, 32 p

The builder's complete assistant, or, A library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general : viz. I. Arithmetick, vulgar and decimal, in whole numbers and fractions. II. Geometry, lineal, superficial, and solid. III. Architecture, universal. IV. Mensuration. V. Plain trigonometry. VI. Surveying of land, &c. VII. Mechanick powers. VIII. Hydrostaticks : illustrated by above thirteen hundred examples of lines, superficies, solids, mouldings, pedestals, columns, pilasters, entablatures, pediments, imposts, block cornices, rustick quoins, frontispieces, arcades, porticos, &c. : proportioned by modules and minutes, according to Andrea Palladio, and by equal parts : likewise great varieties of trussed roofs, timber bridges, centerings, arches, groins, twisted rails, compartments, obelisks, vases, pedestals for bustos, sun-dials, fonts, &c. and methods for raising heavy bodies by the force of levers, pulleys, axes in peritrochio, screws, and wedges, as also water, by the common pump, crane, etc. : wherein the properties, and pressure of the air on water, &c. are explained : the whole exemplified by 77 large quarto copper-plates /

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751
Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751.
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751. Builder's compleat chest-book.
I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)

All of the numbered plates in the atlas are double plates, and thus are counted twice in the adjuste...

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; as, the use of the tramel for groins, angle brackets, niches, &c. ... Ruled of carpentry, to find the length and backing of hips strait or curved; trusses for roofs, domes, &c. ... The proportion of the five orders in their general and particular parts ... With plans and elevations of gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c.

Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

January 1789

Some plates faced by leaves of descriptive text and not included in paging.Mode of access: Internet

Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry and building : a general reference work ... /

American Technical Society.
American School (Lansing, Ill.)

January 1909

Includes indexes.Previous editions published by the School."A compilation of ... instruction papers ...

The house, a manual of rural architecture, or, How to build country houses and out-buildings : embracing the origin and meaning of the house ; the art of house-building, including planning, style and construction ; desings and descriptions of cottages farm-houses, villas and out-buildings, of various cost and in the different styles of architecture, etc., etc. ; and an appendix containing recipes for paints and washes, stucco, rough-cast, etc. ; and instructions for roofing, building with rough stone, unburnt brick, balloon frames, and the concrete or gravel wall ; with numerous original plans /

Jacques, D. H. (Daniel Harrison), 1825-1877.

January 1866

Copy inscribed "Henry S. White".Includes index.Signatures: 1-7[superscript 12] 8[superscript 4].Mode...

Practical carpentry with steel square supplement : being a guide to the correct working and laying out of all kinds of carpenters' and joiners' work ... to which is prefixed a thorough treatise on "Carpenters' geometry /

Hodgson, Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas), 1836-1919

Includes a supplement with special t.p. and pagination : Some difficult problems in carpentry and jo...

The architect, or Practical house carpenter; illustrated by sixty-four engravings, which exhibit the orders of architecture, and other elements of the art; designed for the use of carpenters and builders.

Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845

First edition published 1830 under title: The practical house carpenter.Mode of access: Internet

Cyclopedia of carpentry and contracting ...

American School (Chicago, Ill.)
American Technical Society.

Other editions have been pub. by the American School of Correspondence, Chicago.V. 1. Carpentry; sta...

Treatise on architecture, including the arts of construction, building, stone-masonry, arch, carpentry, roof, joinery, and strength of materials.

Ashpitel, Arthur, 1807-1869, ed.
Robinson, John, 1739-1805.
Young, Thomas, 1773-1829.
Tredgold, Thomas, 1788-1829.
Hosking, William, 1800-1861.

January 1867

John Robison."--Preface."The proprietors of the Encyclopaedia brittannica having been advised that t...

Carpentry and contracting; a practical reference work on carpentry, building superintendence, etc.,

American Technical Society.

January 1919

"Authorities consulted," at beginning of each volume.I. Carpentry, stair building, steel square, pla...

The American builder's companion; or, A system of architecture, particularly adapted to the present style of building ... Illustrated with fifty nine copperplate engravings.

Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.
Wightman, Thomas.
Snyder, Henry W., -1832?
Raynerd, Daniel.
Fox, Gilbert, 1776-1807?

April 1816

Some plates signed by Gilbert Fox, H.W. Snyder or Thomas Wightman as etchers. They are after drawing...

Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry and building; a general reference work...

American School (Lansing, Ill.)

Bibliography: v. 8, p [305]-311.v. 1. Superintendence. Contracts. Specifications. Building law.--v. ...

The American house carpenter : a treatise on the art of building : comprising styles of architecture, strength of materials and the theory and practice of the construction of floors, framed girders, roof trusses, rolled-iron beams, tubular-iron girders, cast-iron girders, stairs, doors, windows, mouldings, and cornices : together with a compend of mathematics /

Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879.
Hatfield, O. P.

"A manual for the practical use of architects, carpenters, stair-builders, and others."Includes inde...

Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... /

American Technical Society.

"Authorities consulted" at beginning of each volume.Other editions have been published by the Americ...

The carpenter and joiner's assistant : containing practical rules for making all kinds of joints, and various methods of hingeing them together, for hanging of doors on straight or circular plans, for fitting up windows and shutters to answer various purposes, with rules for hanging them ... to which are added, examples of various roofs executed, with the scantlings, from actual measurements : with rules for mortices and tenons, and for fixing iron straps, &c. : also extracts from M. Belidor, M. du Hamel, M. de Buffon, &c. on the strength of timber, with practical observations : illustrated with seventy-nine plates, and copious explanations /

Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.
I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)

January 1797

Two folded leaves of publisher's announcements bound in at end.Signatures: A⁶ B-K⁴.Mode of access: I...

The American house-carpenter; a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows, and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry. By R. G. Hatfield.

Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879.

January 1852

5th ed., with additions. Illustrated by more than three hundred engravings.xii, 272, 32 p

The builder's complete assistant, or, A library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general : viz. I. Arithmetick, vulgar and decimal, in whole numbers and fractions. II. Geometry, lineal, superficial, and solid. III. Architecture, universal. IV. Mensuration. V. Plain trigonometry. VI. Surveying of land, &c. VII. Mechanick powers. VIII. Hydrostaticks : illustrated by above thirteen hundred examples of lines, superficies, solids, mouldings, pedestals, columns, pilasters, entablatures, pediments, imposts, block cornices, rustick quoins, frontispieces, arcades, porticos, &c. : proportioned by modules and minutes, according to Andrea Palladio, and by equal parts : likewise great varieties of trussed roofs, timber bridges, centerings, arches, groins, twisted rails, compartments, obelisks, vases, pedestals for bustos, sun-dials, fonts, &c. and methods for raising heavy bodies by the force of levers, pulleys, axes in peritrochio, screws, and wedges, as also water, by the common pump, crane, etc. : wherein the properties, and pressure of the air on water, &c. are explained : the whole exemplified by 77 large quarto copper-plates /

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751
Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751.
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751. Builder's compleat chest-book.
I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)

All of the numbered plates in the atlas are double plates, and thus are counted twice in the adjuste...

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; as, the use of the tramel for groins, angle brackets, niches, &c. ... Ruled of carpentry, to find the length and backing of hips strait or curved; trusses for roofs, domes, &c. ... The proportion of the five orders in their general and particular parts ... With plans and elevations of gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c.

Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

January 1789

Some plates faced by leaves of descriptive text and not included in paging.Mode of access: Internet

Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry and building : a general reference work ... /

American Technical Society.
American School (Lansing, Ill.)

January 1909

Includes indexes.Previous editions published by the School."A compilation of ... instruction papers ...

The house, a manual of rural architecture, or, How to build country houses and out-buildings : embracing the origin and meaning of the house ; the art of house-building, including planning, style and construction ; desings and descriptions of cottages farm-houses, villas and out-buildings, of various cost and in the different styles of architecture, etc., etc. ; and an appendix containing recipes for paints and washes, stucco, rough-cast, etc. ; and instructions for roofing, building with rough stone, unburnt brick, balloon frames, and the concrete or gravel wall ; with numerous original plans /

Jacques, D. H. (Daniel Harrison), 1825-1877.

January 1866

Copy inscribed "Henry S. White".Includes index.Signatures: 1-7[superscript 12] 8[superscript 4].Mode...

Practical carpentry with steel square supplement : being a guide to the correct working and laying out of all kinds of carpenters' and joiners' work ... to which is prefixed a thorough treatise on "Carpenters' geometry /

Hodgson, Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas), 1836-1919

Includes a supplement with special t.p. and pagination : Some difficult problems in carpentry and jo...

The architect, or Practical house carpenter; illustrated by sixty-four engravings, which exhibit the orders of architecture, and other elements of the art; designed for the use of carpenters and builders.

Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845

First edition published 1830 under title: The practical house carpenter.Mode of access: Internet

Cyclopedia of carpentry and contracting ...

American School (Chicago, Ill.)
American Technical Society.

Other editions have been pub. by the American School of Correspondence, Chicago.V. 1. Carpentry; sta...

Treatise on architecture, including the arts of construction, building, stone-masonry, arch, carpentry, roof, joinery, and strength of materials.

Ashpitel, Arthur, 1807-1869, ed.
Robinson, John, 1739-1805.
Young, Thomas, 1773-1829.
Tredgold, Thomas, 1788-1829.
Hosking, William, 1800-1861.

January 1867

John Robison."--Preface."The proprietors of the Encyclopaedia brittannica having been advised that t...

Carpentry and contracting; a practical reference work on carpentry, building superintendence, etc.,

American Technical Society.

January 1919

"Authorities consulted," at beginning of each volume.I. Carpentry, stair building, steel square, pla...

The American builder's companion; or, A system of architecture, particularly adapted to the present style of building ... Illustrated with fifty nine copperplate engravings.

Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.
Wightman, Thomas.
Snyder, Henry W., -1832?
Raynerd, Daniel.
Fox, Gilbert, 1776-1807?

April 1816

Some plates signed by Gilbert Fox, H.W. Snyder or Thomas Wightman as etchers. They are after drawing...

Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry and building; a general reference work...

American School (Lansing, Ill.)

Bibliography: v. 8, p [305]-311.v. 1. Superintendence. Contracts. Specifications. Building law.--v. ...

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