Author: NICHOLSON Peter
Title: Nicholson's New Carpenter's Guide: being a complete book of lines, for carpenters, joiners, and workmen in general, on methods entirely new, founded on geometrical principles.
Description: London, Jones (1792) 1825. (improved and enlarged ed) Fp portrait, xii (mostly 'memoir of Peter Nicholson'), 121pp, c. 121 plates, title page and first two pages of "A Practical Treatise on Mensuration" bound in at the end. 28x22, marbled boards, vellum spine, title on label with glt text. Boards a bit worn, especially on edges, significant water mark on a number of the plates (as these are bound in opposite the relevant text description pages, which are not affected, it is clear that the work has rebound at some point). Enlarged version of this notable work. Nicholson's brilliance as both a carpenter and practical mathematician helped to make his Guide one of the most importance guide books for the 18th and 19th century craftsman.

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