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Elementary principles of carpentry; : a treatise on the pressure and equilibrium of timber framing, the resistance of timber, and the construction of floors, centres, bridges, roofs uniting iron and stone with timber, etc., With practical rules and examples. : To which is added an essay on the nature and properties of timber, including the methods of seasoning, and the causes and prevention of decay, with descriptions of the kinds of wood used in building. : Also numerous tables of the scantlings of timber for different purposes, the specific gravity of materials, &c. : Illustrated by fifty engravings, a portrait of the author and several wood-cuts. / By Thomas Tredgold, civil engineer, fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers ....
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia 1840 Tredgold
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tredgold, Thomas, 1788-1829.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carpentry.
- Timber.
- Roofs.
- Bridges.
- Physical Description:
- [2], xvi, [1], xvi-xxii, 312 p., [63] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port. ; 28 cm.
- Edition:
- Third edition, corrected and considerably enlarged. / With an appendix containing specimens of various ancient and modern roofs, by Peter Barlow, F.R.S. ....
- Other Title:
- Tredgold's elementary principles of carpentry
- Place of Publication:
- London : : John Weale, Architectural Library, 59 High Holborn. 1840.
- Notes:
- Index on p. 301-312.
- Includes 50 engravings on [63] leaves by James Davis, W.A. Beever and John Le Keux after R. Tredgold, C.S. Duncan, Joseph Glynn, John Shaw, W. West and F. Mackenzie. Plates [47]-[50] are numbered I-IV.
- "London: printed by Nutall and Hodgson, Gough Square, Fleet Street."--t.p. verso.
- Spine title: Tredgold's elementary principles of carpentry.
- 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 with index on p. 301-312 bound following plates at end; accession number 4185; first recorded in 1840 Carpenters' Company Library Catalogue Catalogue as no. 112.
- Cited in:
- British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 3347
- OCLC:
- 227209332
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