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Sloan's constructive architecture; : a guide to the practical builder and mechanic. In which is contained a series of designs for domes, roofs and spires, with a number of plates showing the interior construction and finish of bays, window shutters, sliding doors, etc., designed expressly for the joiner's use; : choice examples of the five orders of architecture, selected from the most celebrated specimens of antiquity, with the figured dimensions of their height, projection and profile, and their division into parts. : To which is added a number of useful geometrical problems, examples of groins, centering for arches, diagrams of stair lines, with architraves, door mouldings, etc. The whole being illustrated by sixty-six carefully prepared plates, accompanied by explanatory text and general essays, to whch is appended a copious glossary. / By Samuel Sloan, architect, author of "The model architect," "City and suburban architecture," etc.
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia Oversize 1859 Sloan
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Details--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Orders.
- Building--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Building.
- Roofs--Design and construction--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Roofs.
- Domes--Design and construction--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Domes.
- Spires--Design and construction--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Spires.
- Physical Description:
- 148 p., LXVI leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (some col.), plans ; 31 cm.
- Other Title:
- Constructive architecture
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1859.
- Notes:
- Glossary on p. 123-147.
- Plates (some of which are hand-colored) signed L.N. Rosenthal, Max Rosenthal, lith., and Rosenthal's Lith. Phila.
- Local Notes:
- Title is held at Carpenters' Hall in the Library of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. Access to the books is restricted and available to researchers only by permission requested in advance.
- Carpenters' Company copy has accession number 3236; first recorded in 1894 Carpenters' Company Library inventory as no. 786.
- Cited in:
- Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 1197
- OCLC:
- 233194337
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