The British Carpenter: Or, a Treatise on Carpentry. Containing the Most Concise and Authentick Rules of That Art, ... the Fourth Edition Enla - Paperback

by Francis Price (Author)

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT118096Page 53] is a titlepage dated 1753: 'A supplement to the British Carpenter: containing Palladio's orders of architecture, .. '.London: printed by C. Ackers; for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, and R. Baldwin, 1759. 8],72p., plates; 4