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Hicks' Builders' guide, comprising an easy, practical system of estimating material and labor for carpenters, contractors and builders

Hicks, I. P. (Isaac Perry), b. 1856 · 1907 · New York, David Williams company · 66 pictures

A working handbook by Isaac Perry Hicks, issued in New York by the David Williams Company in 1907 to help carpenters, contractors and builders estimate materials and labor. The plates are line diagrams of roof pitches, trusses and framing, lettered at each vertex, with dashed construction lines on cream stock — usable as geometric ornament, diagram borrowings, or letter-marked schematics.

Carpentry · Building

Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0