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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. The Universal Stair Builder: Being a New Treatise on the Construction of Stair-Cases and Hand-Rails, Showing Plans of the various Forms of Stairs, Method of placing the Risers in the Cylinders, General Method of describing the Face Moulds for a Hand-Rail, and an expeditious method of squaring the Rail. Useful Also to Stone Masons, Constructing Stone Stairs and Hand-Rails; with A New Method of Sawing the Twist Part of Any Hand-Rail Square from the Face of the Plank, and to a Parallel Width. Also, a New Method of Forming the Easings of the Rail by a Gauge; Preceded by some necessary Problems in Practical Geometry, with the sections of Prismatic Solids, Illustrated by 29 Plates, By R.A. Cupper, Architect, Third Edition, James Miller, Publisher, New York, 1872, modern blue cloth, 15.75 x 12.5", folio. In good condition. Light wear to extremities with minor scuffing at surface of rebound cloth. A few minor abrasions to the surface. Corners and end bands lightly crushed. Gilt finishing at spine remains bright and clean. "Fresh" end papers. Bookplate of Maurice Robert Des Marais on front end pastedown. Des Marais was a longtime faculty member in the Department of Architecture at Penn State College of Arts and Architecture and a corporate member of the American Institute of Architects. Interior lightly toned with scattered foxing. A few instance of finger soiling. All plates present. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Third edition. Extremely scarce and unusual. Other works of Cupper's have sold for thousands at auction, but we cannot find any other listings at this time. Perfect for a collector of scarce architecture and masonry manuals. Great, full-page plates.