The Carpenter's New Guide: Being A Compete 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 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 practice 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
London: J. Taylor at the Architectural Library, 1805. Fourth edition. Full Leather. Small quarto, pp. x, 78, plus 4 pages of publisher's advertisements. Some calculations from a previous owner on the front and rear end papers. Peter Nicholson (1765-1844) was a Scottish architect, mathematician and engineer. Largely self-taught, he was..... More
