The country builder's assistant, [electronic resource] : fully explaining, the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings ... Correctly engraved on thirty-seven copperplates with a printed explanation to each. By Asher Benjamin. Published according to act of Congress
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- 4897225
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- Author:
- Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845
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- Boston : Printed by Spotswood and Etheridge, for the author, sold by him, and by Alexander Thomas, Worcester, --1798
- [36] p., 37 leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 4⁰.
- Notes:
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- Plates drawn by Asher Benjamin. There is no explanatory text for plates 9-10, 17-18, and 29-33.
- Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".
- Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ E²
- Cited In:
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- English Short Title Catalog, W30559.
- Evans, 33399
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- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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- United States Massachusetts Boston.
- United States Massachusetts Worcester.
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- 1845
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- 1798
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