The builder's golden rule, or, The youth's sure guide : containing the greatest variety of ornamental and useful designs in architecture and carpentry, with the most ready practical methods of executing the same, from the plan to the ornamental finish, in the most prevailing modern taste : the whole correctly engraved, on 106 copper-plates, with a full explanation in letter-press : to which is added, An estimate of prices for materials and labour, and labour only, with references to the respective designs (1782)
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?, Steel, Henry Draper, 1756-1818 · London : Printed for the author, by H.D. Steel, number 51, Lothbury, near Coleman Street · leaf 76
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![An illustration from The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs, or, The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture : illustrated by upwards of four hundred grand designs neatly engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper plates, for piers, gates, doors ... [etc.] : with an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters, and a variety of roofs, etc. : to which are prefix'd the five orders of columns according to Andrea Palladio ... : with sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ... (1745)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-gri_33125001119193-56-0.webp)
