Buy this book on-line NEWLANDS, James : The Carpenter And Joiner's Assistant. Being A Comprehensive Treatise On The Selection, Preparation, And Strength Of Materials, And The Mechanical Principles Of Framing, With Their Application In Carpentry, Joinery, And Hand-Railing; Also A Course of Instruction In Practical Geometry, Lines, Drawing, Projection, And Perspective; And An Illustrated Glossary of Terms Used In Architecture and Building. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Plates and Many Hundred Engravings on Woodn.d. (c1871)
Blackie & Son. London. No date, circa 1871. Early Edition. Very large 4to. Half bound in brown morocco. Spine tooled in gilt to compartments with gilt title. xiii, [i], 290 pages. Very attractively engraved vignette title page by J.H. Le Keux, 111 plates plus diagrams and plans to text. Boards are worn with scratch to head of spine. Ownership signature to front and creasing to front and rear free endpapers with some foxing throughout. Stains to lower margins of prelims and the occasional dirty mark o/w generally an attractive copy. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of NEWLANDS, James : The Carpenter And Joiner's Assistant. Being A Comprehensive Treatise On The Selection, Preparation, And Strength Of Materials, And The Mechanical Principles Of Framing, With Their Application In Carpentry, Joinery, And Hand-Railing; Also A Course of Instruction In Practical Geometry, Lines, Drawing, Projection, And Perspective; And An Illustrated Glossary of Terms Used In Architecture and Building. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Plates and Many Hundred Engravings on Wood. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Newlands, James : The Carpenter and Joiner's Assistant: Being a Comprehensive Treatise on the Selection, Preparation, and Strength of Materials, and the Mechanical Principles of Framing, with Their Application in Carpentry, Joinery, and Hand-Railing;Blackie & Son, London, 1880
355mm. x 270mm.. xiii., 254 pages, 107 plates (plate 43a duplicated), many in-text illustrations. 'In this Edition several of the Engraved Plates have been improved by the introduction of new figures, and several new Plates have been added'. Half bound in dark green, 5 raised bands to spine, with gilt titling and decoration. James Newlands (28 July 1813 - 15 July 1871) was a Scottish civil engineer who worked in Liverpool as the first Borough Engineer appointed in the United Kingdom, and is credited with designing and implementing the first integrated sewerage system in the world in 1848. Some bumping, wear, losses to extremities, front hinge detached, rear hinge split, some minor foxing. [779]. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Half Bound Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Newlands, James : The Carpenter and Joiner's Assistant: Being a Comprehensive Treatise on the Selection, Preparation, and Strength of Materials, and the Mechanical Principles of Framing, with Their Application in Carpentry, Joinery, and Hand-Railing;. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out of print books, antiquarian books, libri antichi, livres d'occasion and livres anciens. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |