The new and improved practical builder
Subtitle: Carpentry, joinery, and cabinet-making : being a new and complete system of lines for the use of workmen, founded on accurate geometrical and mechanical principles : with their application in carpentry, to roofs, domes, centring, &c. : in joinery, to stairs, hand-rails, soffits, niches, &c. : and in cabinet making, to furniture, both plain and ornamental : fully and clearly explained, illustrated by numerous engravings by artists of the first talent
Publisher: Thomas Kelly
Published: 1837
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Carpentry; Joinery; Cabinetwork
Other titles: Nicholson's Practical carpentry
Notes: "With their applications in carpentry--to roofs, domes, centring, &c.; in joinery--to stairs, hand-rails, soffits, niches, &c., and in in cabinet-making--to furniture, both plain and ornamental, fully and clearly explained.

Title from title page following p. viii.

Preliminary pages contain: Preface -- The new and improved practical builder &c. : introductory chapter.

On leaves of plates: "Published by Thos. Kelly, 17 Paternoster Row, January 2, 1836, E. Turell, sc." on some: "Designed by M.A. Nicholson" ; last 6 plates: "Designed by H. Whitaker."

First ed. published in 1826.
Table of contents: title: Book 1. Carpentry; title: Book 2. Joinery; title: Book 3. Cabinet-making.