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Sloan's constructive architecture : a guide to the practical builder and mechanic. In which is contained a series of designs for domes, roofs and spires, with a number of plates showing the interior construction and finish of bays, window shutters, sliding doors, etc., designed expressly for the joiners use; choice examples of the five orders of architecture, selected fromthe most celebrated specimens of antiquity, with the figured dimensions of their height, projection and profile, and their division into parts,; to which is added a number of useful geometrical problems, examples of groins, centering for arches, diagrams of stair lines, with architraves, door mouldings, etc., the whole being accompanied by explanatory text and general essays, to which is appended a copious glossay (1859)

Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884 · Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co. · leaf 210

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designs of different proportions, some of which are suitable to theheight of any room. No. 1 is a circular window. No. 2 is a perfect square. No. 3; the height is the diagonal of a square. No. 4; the height is equal to a square and two-thirds. No. 5; the height is equal to a square and… … MOULDINGS AND ORNAMENTS. Having in the preceding pages combined, in an essay form, all that we thoughtwould be most likely to prove valuable and interesting in regard to the Orders, wehere purpose to conclude this important department of our work by prefixing to thenecessary Definitions a few…

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