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, ... With plans and elevations of gentlemans and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. By William Pain, ... Engraved on eighty-three plates.
William Pain (1730-1790)
Category
Books
Date
1774
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3126845
Summary
Bibliographic description
5,[11]p.,83 plates . 4to.. Not indigenous. Provenance: Nineteenth-century book label: John Edney, surveyor, valuer & builders accountant, 33 Union Street, Bishopsgate and 62 Murray Street. New North Road. Eighteenth- or nineteenth-century inscription on flyleaf: Ino [?] Edney. Surveyor &c. 16 Barossa [?] Terrace, Cambridge Heath. Later pencil inscription: E. J. Norris, 30 Regent St. S.W. London. Twentieth-century crest bookplate: E. C. Stanley Norris, Patcham [(d.1960), father of Norman Norris]. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Binding: Eighteenth-century full sheep over boards; sewn on five raised bands; lower board detached.
Makers and roles
William Pain (1730-1790)