The Carpenter's New Guide: being a Complete Book of Lines, for Carpentry and Joinery Treating fully of practical geometry, soffits, brick and plaister groins, niches of every description, sky-lights, lines for roofs and domes. On eighty-four copper plates.

NICHOLSON Peter

Published by London, J Taylor 6th ed, 1814 (corrected and enlarged)

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viii, 87pp, 84 plates, [5], 8pp publisher's notices 27x22, calf, crudely rebacked with treated black cloth, no text on spine Covers heavily worn, the (re)binding in cloth is heavily worn, some foxing and marks on contents, binding loose, end-papers splitting, owner's name three times in elegant script on fep, overall a fair copy. Enlarged version of this notable work by Nicholson.The owner, one William Annis of Sproxton in Leicestershire, appears to have been practicising his very best handwriting on the endpapers, a nice personal touch.

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• Title: The Carpenter's New Guide: being a Complete Book of Lines, for Carpentry and Joinery Treating fully of practical geometry, soffits, brick and plaister groins, niches of every description, sky-lights, lines for roofs and domes. On eighty-four copper plates.
• Publisher: London, J Taylor 6th ed, 1814 (corrected and enlarged)
• Binding: Hardcover
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