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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 : ... the whole correctly engraved on 92 folio copper-plates, containing upwards of seven hundred designs ... (1769)

Pain, William, 1730?-1790? · London : Printed for Robert Sayer ... · leaf 48

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