[Tools]. Hodgson, Fred T.

The Carpenters' Steel Square, and Its Uses; being a description of the square, and its uses in obtaining the lengths and bevels of all kinds of rafters, hips, groins, braces, brackets, purlins, collar beams and jack-rafters: also its application in obtaining the bevels and cuts for hoppers, spring mouldings, octagons, stairs, diminished stiles, etc., etc., etc.

New York: Palliser, Palliser & Co., 1880/1883. Third edition, revised and greatly enlarged. Cloth over Boards. 12 mo, pp. viii, 98. Illustrated with nearly 100 woodcuts. 4 pages of trade advertisements at the back. Good; cover soiled and edgeworn, spine sunned, back hinge weak. Item #20199

A very early and scarce Hodgson title, one which shows the full functionality of the carpenter's steel square. Chapters on bevels for hoppers, bisecting circles, cutting spring mouldings, laying out rafters, stairs and strings, irregular hop roofs, trusses, curved hip rafters, splayed Gothic heads, and much more.

Price: $45.00