A treatise on the construction of stair-cases and hand-rails
Subtitle: showing plans and elevations of the various forms of stairs; methods of projecting the twist and scroll of the hand-rail; an expeditious method of squaring the rail; general methods of describing the scroll and forming it out of the solid: with a new method of applying the face mould to the plank without bevelling the edge. Preceded by some necessary problems in practical geometry; with the sections and coverings of prismatic solids. Illustrated by thirty-nine plates
By: By Peter Nicholson ...
Edition: A new ed.
Publisher: M. Taylor
Published: 1847
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Stair building; Handrails