[Carpentry]. Hodgson, Fred T.

Common-Sense Stair-Building and Handrailing; handrailing in three divisions showing three of the simplest methods known in the art, with complete instructions for laying out and working handrails suitable for any kind of a stair, straight, circular or elliptical, or for stairs with landings and cylinders; stairbuilding covers upwards of eighty pages, devoted to newel or platform stairs chiefly, giving instructions for their building, planning and decoration

Chicago: The Radford Architectural Co., 1902. First edition. Half-Leather. Octavo, pp. 196 plus 59-page house plan supplement for 25 low and medium priced houses, illustrated with b/w drawings and engravings. Some pencil scribbles on endpapers. Very Good, some wear on backstrip. Item #23332

An interesting treatise on the issues particular to stairbuilding and handrailing. Still of use to carpenters today, although the measurements and calculations are largely done by computer now.

Price: $60.00