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 ... designs for roofs, trussed girders, floors, domes, bridges, &c.; staircases and hand-rails of various constructions; 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 exp
By Peter Nicholson
Publish Date
1808
Publisher
Printed for J. Taylor
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