1818 The Carpenter’s New Guide: Nicholson Plates Philadelphia Publisher

Description: Peter Nicholson’s guide is perhaps one of the most important carpenter’s handbook ever written, having been reprinted multiple times after its initial impression in 1792. In good condition, htis copy has a nice leather binding in good condition with some scuffing, shelf wear and scratches. There is discoloration to the paper with tide marks and foxing throughout. Inside, on the plain endpapers, are several calculations and, in old ink, $6—. Plates throughout the text. Email with questions or for more pictures. Fair Condition: 4to: Missing plates 56-60, all others intact. Full leather with fading, scuffing and edge wear: ridged spine with red label in second compartment having gilt lettering (Nicholson’s Guide): calculations on the inside, front and rear: bookplate inside front and pencil on free endpaper: foxing and tidemarks throughout: discoloration of paper due to age: bent corners with wear and some loss of coverage: “The Carpenter’s New Guide: being a Complete Book of Lines for Carpentry and Joinery. Treating Fully on Practical Geometry, Soffits, Brick and Plaster Grounds, Niches of Every description, Sky-lights, Lines of Roofs and Domes; with a great variety of Designs for Roofs, Trussed Girders, Floors, Domes, Bridges &c, Stair-cases and Hand-rails of Various Constructions; Angle Bars for Shop Fronts, &c.; and Raking Mouldings; with many other things Entirely New. The Whole Founded on True Geometrical Principles: the Theory and Practice Well Explained and Full Exemplified on Eighty-Four Copper-Plates including some Observations and Calculations on the Strength of Timber”: Peter Nicholson: the Eighth Edition from the Sixth London Edition (second American edition): Philadelphia: M.Carey and Son: Griggs and Co, Printers: June 1818RAREA1818BKLA

Price: 350 USD

Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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