The Carpenter's New Guide: Being a Complete Book of Lines for Carpentry and Joinery Treating Fully on Practical Geometry, Soffits , Brick and Plaister Groins , Niches of Every Description , Sky - Lights ,Lines for Roofs and Domes : With (continued below)

59 High Holborn London : J Taylor at the Architectural Library , 1805. A Great Variety of Designs for Roofs , Trussed Girders , Floors , Domes, Bridges , &c.: Staircases and Hand-rails of Various Constructions : Angle Bars for Shop Fronts , &c. ; and Raking Mouldings ; with many other Things Entirely New. The Whole Founded on True Geometrical Principles ; the Theory and Practise well explained and fully exemplified.ON SEVENTY - EIGHT COPPER PLATES Correctly Engraved By The Author. Including SOME OBSERVATIONS AND CALCULATIONS ON THE STRENGTH OF TIMBER. The Author was also Author of : The Carpenters and Joiner's Assistant , Seventy-nine Plates; The Student's Instructor to the Five Orders, &c.76pp of TEXT Plus 78 Copper Engravings with Two pages advertising other books published by J Taylor AND a FOUR page CATALOGUE of MODERN (1805!) BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE,Theoretical, Practical, and Ornamental; These folding out to FOLIO size. Rebound in HALF Leather with marbled boards and new end papers. A Very Nice Copy. NOT "Signed by the Author". NOT Inscribed or Signed. The Fourth Edition . Half Leather. Very Good (minor foxing)/No Jacket. Illus. by Seventy Eight Copper Plates . 4to - over 9¾" - 12". HARDBACK.