The modern architect; or, Every carpenter his own master. Embracing plans, elevations, specifications, framing, etc., for private houses, classic dwellings, churches, &c. to which is added the new system of stair-building. By Edward Shaw. Illustrated by sixty-five engravings.

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Shaw, Edward.

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Publication:

Boston: Dayton and Wentworth. 1854.

Description:

128, iv pages frontispiece, 64 plates 28 cm

Notes:
"The new lien law of Massachusetts ... Also abridgements of the law for all the other states in the Union": iv p. at end.
The first 52 plates are identical with those in his Rural architecture, 1843.-cf. Hitchcock, American architectural books [c1962], p. 94.
Hitchcock 1156

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Architecture.
architecture (discipline)

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Location: Library main 29239
Call No.: 6383; ID:88-B14904
Status: Available

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