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Modern carpentry and joinery : being a compilation of the very best things and most modern and practical methods known in the arts of carpentry and joinery

Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836- · 1910 · Chicago : F. J. Drake & Co. · 257 pictures

A trade manual on carpentry and joinery compiled by Frederick Thomas Hodgson and published in Chicago by F. J. Drake & Co. in 1910 for working carpenters, builders, and apprentices. The 257 line drawings are hard-edged wood engravings and diagrams: hatched timber sections, roof and cornice details, dovetail and mortise joints, stair layouts, and geometric projections with lettered points, dotted construction lines, and inch scales useful as technical linework, pattern fills, and diagrammatic ornament.

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