The carpenter and joiner's assistant; : containing practical rules for making all kinds of joints, and various methods of hingeing them together; for hanging of doors on straight or circular plans; for fitting up windows and shutters to answer various purposes, with rules for hanging them: for the construction of floors, partitions, soffits, groins, arches for masonry; for constructing roofs in the best manner from a given quantity of timber: for placing of bond timbers; with various methods for adjusting raking pediments, enlarging and diminishing of mouldings; taking dimensions for joinery, and for setting out shop fronts. With a new scheme for constructing stairs and hand-rails, and for stairs having a conical well-hole, &c. &c. To which are added, examples of various roofs executed, with the scantlings, from actual measurements. With rules for mortices and tenons, and for fixing iron straps, &c. Also extracts from M. Belidor, M. du Hamel, M. de Buffon, &c. on the strength of timber, with practical observations. Illustrated with seventy-nine plates, and copious explanations. /
Nicholson, Peter,1765-1844.
London: : Printed for J. Taylor, at the Architecture Library, opposite Great Turnstile, Holborn.,
1805.
A reprint of the 1797 first edition with a slightly different typesetting. The plates are the same as for the 1797 edition. The author was a Scot.
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Carpentry
Joinery
England London.