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 ... the proportion of the five orders ... with plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns,
A builder's pattern book by William Pain, published in London in 1774 for carpenters, joiners and country builders working without an architect. The plates are line engravings of cornices, chimney-piece profiles, pedestals and capitals, dimensioned in inches and parts, with enriched mouldings — egg-and-dart, acanthus, guilloche — drawn in flat elevation beside their plain sections, useful as ornament borders and measured line stock.
