Common-sense stair building and handrailing (1903)
Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836-1919 · Chicago, F. J. Drake & Co · leaf 148
Fig. 46. FOURTH METHOD 141 A flight of stairs with newels, having carved balus-trade, strings and newels, is shown at Fig. 48. This is a … Fig. 48. French design, and has a very broad rail elaboratelywrought. The carved string is a special feature of this 142 COMMON-SENSE HANDRAILING example, so also are the square car\ed vases that sur-mount the newels. It will be noticed that the newelsin this example are much larger in section than…
Stair building · Hand-railing
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