The Practical House Carpenter; or, Youth’s Instructor: containing a Great Variety of Useful Designs in...
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 demand for his books exceeded that of any other eighteenth-century English author…
“Intending ‘plainly and faithfully to answer the purpose of the manual artificer’, he... More