Pain's British Palladio, or, The builder's general assistant : demonstrating in the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the ground plan to the ornamental finish : illustrated with several new and useful designs of houses, with their plans, elevations, and sections ...
Pain's British Palladio is a 1793 London builder's handbook by William Pain, published by I. and J. Taylor for architects and craftsmen working on domestic building. Its plates show architectural detail drawn in fine line: moulded door and window frames, ornamented cornices, and stair plans with elevations. A designer might take from them the crisp linework and classical ornament of late eighteenth-century English neoclassical interiors.
