The modern architect, or, Every carpenter his own master : embracing plans, elevations, specifications, framing, etc., for private houses, classic dwellings, churches, &c., to which added the new system of stair-building
A builder's pattern book by Edward Shaw, published in Boston by Dayton and Wentworth in 1855 for carpenters and housewrights working without an architect. Engraved plates pair line elevations of Doric, Ionic and Italianate houses with numbered floor plans, stair geometry and framing diagrams, offering thin-line architectural drawing, hatched wall poché and plate lettering.
