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The carpenter's new guide; : a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery: : treating fully on practical geometry, soffits, groins, niches, roofs, and domes, and containing a great variety of original designs. Also a full exemplification of the theory and practice of stair building, cornices, mouldings, and dressings of every description including also some observations and calculations on the strength of timber, / by Peter Nicholson, author of "The carpenter's and joiner's assistant," "The student's instructor to the five orders," etc. ; The whole being carefully and thoroughly revised by N.K. Davis. ; And containing numerous new, improved, and original designs for roofs, domes, etc. by Samuel Sloan, architect, author of "The model architect."
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia 1854 Nicholson
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.
- Carpenters' Company Library Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia) PPA
- T.K. & P.G. Collins (Firm)., Printer.
- Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Publisher.
- Subjects (All):
- Geometry.
- Joinery.
- Carpentry.
- Carpentry--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Timber.
- Stair building.
- Measurement.
- Physical Description:
- vi, [3], 10-107, [1] p., [81] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
- Edition:
- Sixteenth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854.
- Notes:
- Copyright 1853 by Lippincott, Grambo & Co.
- "Stereotyped by J. Fagan. Printed by T.K. & P.G. Collins."--t.p. verso.
- Includes frontispiece and 80 numbered engraved plates.
- 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 4190; first recorded in 1857 Carpenters' Company Library inventory as no. 572 and in the Carpenters' Company Library Catalogue as no. 317.
- OCLC:
- 231627286
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