The carpenter's new guide : being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery. Treating Fully on Practical Geometry, Soffits, Brick and Plaister 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 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 explained, and fully exemplified on seventy-eight copper-plates, correctly engraved by the author. Including some observations and calculations on the strength of timber. By Peter Nicholson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

New carpenter's guide

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carpentry.

Physical Description:

3 unnumbered pages,vi-xii,76 pages,78 plates ; 4⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, No. 56, High Holborn, MDCCXCIII. [1793]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T80844.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.