An edition of The carpenter's new guide (1793)
The carpenter's new guide
being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery : treating fully on practical geometry, soffits, brick and plaster groins, niches of every description, sky-lights, lines for roofs and domes : with a great variety of designs for roofs, trussed girders, floors, domes, bridges, &c. stair-cases and hand-rails of various construction : angle bars for shop fronts, &c. and raking mouldings : with many other things entirely new : the whole founded on true geometrical principles : the theory and practice well explained and fully exemplified on eighty-four copper-plates : including some observations and calculations on the strength of timber
By Peter Nicholson
Publish Date
1834
Publisher
Grigg, Elliot
Language
eng
Pages
112
Description:
from the book's frontispiece: "Being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery. Treating fully on Practical Geometry, soffits, brick and plaster groins, niches of every description, sky-lights, lines for roofs and domes; ... with many other things entirely new: The whole founded on true geometrical principles;... eighty-four copper-plates; including some observations and calculations on the strength of timber" Tenth edition, 1830, published by John Grigg, Philadelphia.
subjects: Carpentry, Joinery, Measurement, Timber, geometry, Staircases