The carpenter's new guide; a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery, treating fully on practical geometry, soffits, groins, niches, roofs, and domes, and containing a great variety of original designs. Also a full exemplification of the theory and practice of stair building, cornices, mouldings, and dressings of every description. Including also some observations and calculations on the strength of timber
A carpentry and joinery manual by Peter Nicholson, revised by Noah Knowles Davis and Samuel Sloan and issued in Philadelphia by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. in 1854 for builders and apprentices. The 108 engraved plates give geometric construction drawings of arches, groins, niches, stairs and mouldings, with lettered points, dotted projection lines and lightly shaded voussoirs useful as line diagrams and technical ornament.
