The American house-carpenter; a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows, and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry
A builder's manual by New York architect Robert Griffith Hatfield, issued by J. Wiley in 1852 for American house-carpenters learning framing, joinery and practical geometry. The 207 wood-engraved figures are line diagrams: lettered construction points, arcs and ellipses, ruled hatching for shadow, and stair and moulding sections that yield spare geometric marks and hand-drawn hatch textures.
