The practical house carpenter, or, Youth's instructor ... : the whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy by one hundred and forty-eight copper-plates, with explanations to each
A builder's manual by William Pain, published in London in 1815 by J. Taylor, written to teach carpentry and architecture to apprentices and joiners. Its copper-plate engravings are precise working drawings of column orders, door cases, and roof trusses, with plates numbered and labelled for measurement. A designer could take from them the classical proportions of Doric and Ionic capitals, bases, and moulding profiles, and the clean line-drawing method of elevation and section views.
