A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 396
STONE DRESSING blocks ; in that case, the stone is <lressed with aslightly receding or liollowed bed, anil the edgesof the faces of the stones may almost touch, nomortar being visible. Sucii joints as these HMjuirecutting as carelul as that of the faces, l)Ut the ac-t\ial surface should always… … Stone Cutting, Fig. 0: finely Finished Work of the French Renaissance. «an be called elaborate in our moileni sense ofthe word. — R. S. STONE DRESSING. That part of stonecutting which relates to the surface of stonesprepared for building. Thus, the beds andjoints of the stone may be hammer…
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