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Chiefly for that large majority of young men who enter the trade of the bricklayer (and all other trades in house-building) without any previous training or instruction to fit them for the calling, depending entirely upon the manipulative skill they may or may not acquire in the handling of their tools. The book commences with the site of a building, and goes through the successive stages of the bricklayer's trade, including roof tiling; and concludes with a section on Applied Geometry, containing problems that may be.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1330441176
- ISBN 13 9781330441176
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages195
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