The country builder's assistant: [electronic resource] : --containing-- a collection of new designs of carpentry and architecture; which will be particularly useful, to country workmen in general. : Illustrated with new and useful designs ... Correctly engraved on thirty copper plates with a printed explanation to each. / By Asher Benjamin
- Bib ID:
- 3380815
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845
- Online Version:
- http://opac.newsbank.com/select/evans/31797
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- Description:
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- Printed at Greenfield, (Massachusetts): by Thomas Dickman., M,DCC,XCVII. [1797]
- [30] p., 30 leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 31797.
- Notes:
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- "This is the earliest original American work on architecture"--Hitchcock.
- Plates drawn by Asher Benjamin. There is no explanatory text for plates 25-27.
- Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
- Cited In:
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- Evans 31797
- Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 111
- Reproduction:
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 31797). Mode of access : World Wide Web.
- Subject:
- Place:
- United States Massachusetts Greenfield.
- Other authors/contributors:
- Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845, illustrator
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1845
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1797
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