Early renaissance architecture in England; a historical & descriptive account of the Tudor, Elizabethan & Jacobean periods, 1500-1625, for the use of students and others (1901)
Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred), 1852-1942 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 357
fewexamples to befound. All thefinest staircasesare of wood, andthey seem tohave sprung intobeing without anygradual growth;the connectinglinks betweenthem and the oldcorkscrew type, ifthere were any,ha\e disappeared. … 174.—Staircase from East Quantockshead, Somerset. i88 CONSTRUCTION OF STAIRCASES. The principle upon which these wood staircases were con-structed may be compared to that of the ladder, where thesides of the ladder are replaced by deep and comparativelynarrow pieces of wood called strings, and the…
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