The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish : ... the whole correctly engraved on 92 folio copper-plates, containing upwards of seven hundred designs ...
The Builder's Companion is a late eighteenth-century architectural and carpentry manual by William Pain, printed in London in 1769 by Robert Sayer for craftsmen and builders. Its pictures are engraved folio plates of classical column capitals, cornices, pedestals, and panelled door and window joinery, with construction lines and measurements a designer could adapt for mouldings and architectural ornament.
