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Pattern book

A book on architectural practice that serves as a builder’s manual, buyer’s guide, or handbook, containing plans and details for common building element such as columns, cornices, and doors and windows.
Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture Copyright © 2012, 2002, 1998 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved

pattern book

In the 18th and 19th centuries, a book on architectural practice that once served as a builders’ manual, builders’ guide, or handbook containing plans and/or patterns of houses and building details such as columns, cornices, doors, porches, and windows.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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