The Practical House Carpenter Or Youth S Instructor Containing A Great Variety Of Useful Designs

by William Pain

$950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

148 engraved plates several double-page and one double-page & folding . 3 p.l., 15 leaves of explanatory text. 4to, cont. marbled sheep joints well-repaired , flat spine gilt. London: J. Taylor, 1823. The “Ninth Edition” and a fine copy. The first edition appeared in 1788. Pain “was constantly in print either with a new book — he published eleven between 1758 and 1793 — or with a revised enlarged edition of an earlier one. In America the

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