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)
HAND-RAILING. 69 PLATE 54. Plan of a stair-case, showing how to arrange the steps at the circle, so as to allow thestring-board to be formed without the easing (usually made) on its lower edge, caused bymaking the tread of the steps greater or less at the circle than at the flyers; this plan…
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