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A practical treatise on handrailing : showing new and simple methods for finding the pitch of the plank, drawing the moulds, bevelling, jointing-up, and squaring the wreath (1890)

Collings, George · London : Crosby Lockwood and Son · leaf 131

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95 PLANS OF STAIRCASES. tvinders it should alwaj^s be done, and the stairs will look better and be much safer and easier to use. These matters, as a rule, are decided by- others than the workman who makes the stairs. Still, there are times when the stair-builder is called upon to exercise his… … staircases will be equally applicable to some par- ticular parts of this also. Let A B c D, Fig. 9, be the plan of the walls where a geometrical staircase is to be erected. The position of doorways either at the bottom or top, or wherever else they may occur if near the stairs, must be carefully…

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