Text-book of modern carpentry : comprising a treatise on building-timber ... / by Thomas W. Silloway ; illustrated by twenty copperplates

Text-book of modern carpentry : comprising a treatise on building-timber ... / by Thomas W. Silloway ; illustrated by twenty copperplates

Boston : Woolworth, Ainsworth & Co. ; New York : A. S. Barnes & Co. [c1858]

1858

viii, 180 p. : tables, plates ; 18 cm.

Full title: Text-book of modern carpentry : comprising a treatise on building-timber, with rules and tables for calculating its strength, and the strains to which each timber of a structure is subjected; observations on roofs, trusses, bridges, &c.; and a glossary, explaining at length the technical terms in use among carpenters / by Thomas W. Silloway ; illustrated by twenty copperplates

Inscribed: "Tristam H. Durell, Mechanic Falls, Maine, July 15 1871, price 1.50, bought in Lewiston"