Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 161
, it should besaid, string boards, horizontal grooves are made in the inner face of each, as atF^™^Sc^andvertical grooves, as at L M N o, &c. Into these grooves boards an inch inthickness are: inserted to form the stairs; the horizontal boards on which theoot is placed are called (readers, and… … CONSTRUCTION OF STAIRCASES. The House and its Furniture. 117 ing above the floor, and the inclination of the string boards ; but in an ordinarystaircase a treader is about 9 inches broad, and a riser 7 or 7% inches high. Whenthe boards have been securely nailed to the ends of the treaders and…
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