ABC/20 - Practical carpentry, joinery and cabinet-making. Revised by Thomas Tredgold.

ABC/20

Practical carpentry, joinery and cabinet-making. Revised by Thomas Tredgold.

1 volume

A volume divided into three Books. The First Book treats of Carpentry, with an introduction, showing the principles and methods of describing curves; the nature and methods of making working-drawings; the manner of setting out Buildings. The Carpentry then commences with the principles and practice of framing and connecting timbers; the construction of roofs, floors, partitions, domes, niches, groins, centres, and wooden bridges. The Second Book treats the Joinery; it exhibits the methods of framing, gluing-up, setting-out work, the description of raking-moldings, methods of enlarging and diminishing moldings, the art of hinging and forming joints; the construction of doors, windows, window-shutters, circular sashes, skylights; the mode of bending moldings, of diminishing and fluting columns and pilaster; the forming of architraves, surbases, and bases; a treatise on the theory of construction of stairs and handrails; methods of fixing joiners' work. The Third Book is dedicated to cabinet-making, or the principles of designing, constructing and selecting furniture. Followed by the principles of constructing furniture, methods of veneering, inlaying, buhl-work, carving, molding ornaments in wood and composition. Illustrations of Grecian, Roman and Gothic styles are included.

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