The carpenter's and joiner's hand-book: containing a complete treatise on framing hip and valley roofs. Together with much valuable instruction for all mechanics and amateurs, useful rules, tables, etc. ... Illustrated by thirty-seven engravings
A pocket trade manual by Henry Wells Holly, published at Norwich, Connecticut in 1863, teaching carpenters, joiners, and amateurs to frame hip and valley roofs, with rules and tables. Its thirty-seven wood engravings are bare line geometry: lettered rafter layouts, bevel and mitre diagrams, circles with inscribed chords, and tapered segments, printed small on toned paper with visible show-through.
