A treatise on stairbuilding and handrailing : containing numerous examples ... / by William Mowat and Alexander Mowat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mowat, William, M.A.

Contributor:

Mowat, Alexander.

Chandler, Theophilus P. (Theophilus Parsons), 1845-1928., Former owner.

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stair building.

Handrails.

Physical Description:

xx, 368 p., 10 fold. leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : G. Bell and Sons, 1900.

Contents:

Part I. Stairbuilding. Preliminary remarks and definitions, classification of stairs

Observations on the designing and planning of stairs

Construction of straight stairs

Construction of quarter-turn newel stairs with winders at the starting

Half-turn newelled stairs

Half-turn geometrical stairs

Stairs for passenger ships

Miscellaneous illustrations of stair startings and balustrades, characteristic examples of newel staircases of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Part II. Handrailing, theoretical and practical. Handrailing (theoretical)

Handrailing (practical)

System of handrailing by normal sections

Part III. Stone stairs. General details of construction

Construction of spiral and elliptic stairs

Terrace stair with stone balustrade

Appendix. Plane geometry. Measurement of angles

Construction of the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola

Scales. Solid or descriptive geometry. Planes. Sections and developments.

Notes:

Includes index.

Signed on inside cover and on title page, "T. P. Chandler 1900."

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bound in dark teal cloth with writing in gold.

Athenaeum copy: T.P. Chandler library.

OCLC:

3209609