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 (1854)
that, for the method of finding the buttjoints, Plate 55, I am indebted to an eminent stair-builder of this city, whose mechanicalskill in joinery, I, with others, hold in high estimation. WILLIAM JOHNSTON, Architect, Philadelpliia. PLATE 53. Plan and Elevation of a Neicel Post Staircase. /Scale i…
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