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The cabinet maker : a practical guide to the principles of design, and the economical and sound construction of household furniture, furnishings, and fittings : together with treatises on the designing and setting out of mouldings, and of ornamental or cut-wood work (1892)

London : Ward, Lock, Bowden · leaf 143

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Plate, the Grecian torus, which when reversed gives the Grecian ovolo, is illustrated. The points a > c> terminating the curve of the moulding, are joined by the line a c. This is divided in the point e, through which a line fe g is drawn parallel to the line c b. The line a is extended to l, and a… … Fig. 16. drawing From the point g, through points in ac, draw indefinite lines as shown, and from point./, through points in a l, draw another set of lines, as j 1J2, etc. These two sets of lines will intersect each other m the points as m, n, o, through which, if a curved line be drawn from point…

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