The carpenter's and joiner's repository: or, A new system of lines and proportions for Doors, Windows, Chimnies, Cornices & Mouldings, For Finishing of Rooms

Inventory number

L 521 LR/1 Recto

Handwritten inventory reference:

vol.9, p.63

Collection

Département des Arts graphiques
Collection Edmond de Rothschild

Artist/maker / School / Artistic centre

Anonyme , gravé par
Ecole inconnue
edité par TAYLOR Isaac
gravé d'après PAIN William

Description

Object name/Title

The carpenter's and joiner's repository: or, A new system of lines and proportions for Doors, Windows, Chimnies, Cornices & Mouldings, For Finishing of Rooms
A great variety of stair-cases, On a Plan entirely New, and easy to be understood. Circular Circular Soffits, flewing and winding, in straight and circular Walls, Groins, Angle Brackets, circular and elliptical Sky-Lights; and the Method of Squaring and Preparing their circular Bars, Shop Fronts, &c. By W. Pain, Joiner. Engraved on sixty-nine copper-plates.

Type of object

Livre

Description/Features

Description de l'album :
[Sur la page de titre] : London: Printed for the Author ; And Sold by I. Taylor, at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane. MDCCLXXVIII.
Un volume, in-4, reliure en veau Lavallière.
84 folios, page de titre sur le folio 1, Soixante-neuf illustrations à pleine page sur les folios 3, 4, 6 à 20, 22 à 35, 37 à 52, 54 à 58, 60 à 62, 64 à 66, 68, 69, 71 à 73, 75, 77, 79, 81 à 83.

Places and dates

Date

1778

History

Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / Dedicatee

Dernière provenance : Rothschild, baron Edmond de

Acquisition details

don

Acquisition date

1935

Location of object

Current location

Réserve Edmond de Rothschild
The carpenter's and joiner's repository: or, A new system of lines and proportions for Doors, Windows, Chimnies, Cornices & Mouldings, For Finishing of Rooms [...] By W. Pain, Joiner. Engraved on sixty-nine copper-plates.
L 521 LR

This artwork is on view by appointment in the reference room for prints and drawings