Elementary Principles of Carpentry: A Treatise on the Pressure and Equilibrium of Timber Framing; the Resistance of Timber; and the Construction of Floors, Roofs, Centres, Bridges, Roofs; Uniting Iron and Stone with Timber, etc. ; With Practical Rules and Examples
London: Lockwood & Co., 1853. First edition. original boards, professionally rebacked. Quarto (9 x 12), pp. 336, indexed, illustrated by 64 engravings, a portrait of the author, and numerous wood-cuts. Tredgold was a self-taught engineer who went through an apprenticeship in carpentry and cabinet-making before joining office of Architect to..... More