Author: MOWAT William & MOWAT Alexander
Title: A Treatise on Stairbuilding and Handrailing Containing numerous examples illustrating the construction of the various classes of wood stairs, both for houses and passenger ships, and of stone stairs; with a complete course of handrailing, showing easy, accurate, and economical methods of getting out and preparing wreathed handrails; also an appendix consisting of a short course of plane and descriptive geometry bearing on the subject. Intended for the use of house and ship joiners, masons, builders, architects and for students in technical school preparing for the examinations of the City and Guilds of London Institute and the Science and Art Department in Carpentry and Building Constructon
Description: London, George Bell & Sons, 1900 xx, 368pp, tissue-gaurded frontis, hundreds of ills, including fold-outs. 28x20, green cloth, glt lettering. Cloth water stained, spine pulled, hinges rather loose, foxing to title page, contents generally good but shaken, fair to good thus. Very detailed and scholarly work. Repaired or rebound would make a very attractve item indeed.

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE wood stone carving


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