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only cover on file
The Carpenter's New Guide
“being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery. Treating fully on practical geometry, soffits, brick and plaster groins ... with a great variety of designs for roofs, trussed girders ... with many other things entirely new: the whole founded on true geometrical principles; the theory and practice well explained and fully exemplified on eighty-four copper-plates; including some observations and calculations on the strength of timber”
1793112 pages~2h read
only cover on file
The Carpenter's New Guide
“being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery. Treating fully on practical geometry, soffits, brick and plaster groins ... with a great variety of designs for roofs, trussed girders ... with many other things entirely new: the whole founded on true geometrical principles; the theory and practice well explained and fully exemplified on eighty-four copper-plates; including some observations and calculations on the strength of timber”
1793112 pages~2h read
“Having gone through the constructive part of Carpentry, I next proceed to examples showing the best forms of floors, partitions, trusses for roofs, truss girderf^ domes, &c.”