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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

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A425

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Type of record: Book

Title: 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

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A425

Creator(s): Newlands, James (1813-1871)

Additional creator(s): White, John (Architect) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: Blackie

Publication city: London

Date(s): [1880?]

Language: English

Size and medium: xiii, 254 pages, 100 leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729613

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019895265205181

Description

Includes a complete treatise on lines, and an illustrated glossary of terms used in architecture and building.


"Proyected by Mr. John White, author of Rural architecture, who prepared the greater number of drawings for the plates, but died before he could supply any portion of the text."--Preface.


Includes index.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A425: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HC/8. MS. annotations on front flyleaf..

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