Author: HAY, JOHN .
Title: Nicholson's New Carpenter's Guide; Being A complete Book of Lines for Carpenters, Joiners, Cabinet Makers, and Workmen in General. An Enlarged and Improved Edition, By John Hay, Esq. Architect...
Description: London: George Virtue, c. 1850 . 0. "The Theory and Practice Explained by Numerous Engravings." A very good half leather binding. 4to. 11.0" x 8.5" x 1.5". pp.xii./pp.122 + 131 leaves of plates . Brown calf and corners over grey buckram boards. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorated compartments, black leather title label and gilt owner's name to base: "T. M. Tremain". Grey marbled endpapers. Engraved portrait frontis, facing an engraved title-page, followed by a printed title-page (undated). Clean text and illustrations throughout, just a few marks and blemishes to the margins from previous use. VG. ** " Peter Nicholson (20 July 1765 – 18 June 1844) was a Scottish architect, mathematician and engineer. Largely self-taught, he was apprenticed to a cabinet-maker but soon abandoned his trade in favour of teaching and writing. He published his first book (at the age of 27); The Carpenter's New Guide in 1792, illustrating it with plates engraved by his own hand. It is notable for containing an original method for the construction of groins and niches of complex, double curved forms.." - See Wikipedia.

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