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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)

Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844, Davis, Noah Knowles, 1830- ed, Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, ed · Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Co. · leaf 259

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Fif) .2. … MOULDINGS. 95 PLATE 79. Given tlie Form of a Cornice, to draw it to a greater Proportion. Fig. 1. Let the gh-en height of the cornice he ad; set one foot of your compass in a,and cross the under side at h with that height, and from the point c draw the line c c? atright-angles to a &; then the…

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