A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 389
STONE DRESSING blocks ; in that case, the stone is dres.sed with aslightly receding or hollowed bed, and the edgesof the faces of the stones may ahnu.st touch, nomortar being visilile. Sucli joints as the.se reijuirecutting as careful as that of the faces, but the ac-tual surface should always lie… … Stone Cutting, Fig FINELY Finished Work of the French Renaissance. •can be called elaborate in our modern sense ofthe word. — R. S. STONE DRESSING. That jiart of stonecutting which rel.iti-s to the surface of stone.sprepared for building. Thus, the beds andjoints of the stone may be hammer…
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