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Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.

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    The student's instructor in drawing and working the five orders of architecture . Fully explaining the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings; for dimnishing and gluing of columns and capitals; for finding the true diameter of an order to any given height; for striking the ionic volute, circular or elliptical; with finished examples, on a large scale, of the orders, their planceers, &c. and some designs for door-cases. Elegantly engraved on thirty-three plates. With explanations. By Peter Nicholson, author of the carpenter's new guide.

    Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844. | Date: 1705
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    The new carpenters' guide , being a complete book for lines of carpentry, &c. on methods entirely new; founded on geometrical principles, Wherein the Utility of every Line will be fully exemplified by Practice. By P. Nicholson.

    Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844. | Date: MDCCXCII

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