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 ... / by R.A. Cupper ...

Main entry:

Cupper, R. A.

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Edition:

3rd ed.

Publication:

Philadelphia : H.C. Baird, [1851]

Description:

1 preliminary leaf, [4], 32 pages, 29 plates

Notes:
Title continues: "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."
Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1971. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (American architectural books : based on the Henry-Russell Hitchcock bibliography ; reel 21, no. 310).

Subject:

Stair building.
Escaliers Construction.

Added entries:

American architectural books : based on the Henry-Russell Hitchcock bibliography.

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Location: Library study room microform 40866
Call No.: ID87B7159s21 MFM; ID:89-B10638
Status: Available

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