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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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JUST PUBLISHED. ROYAL QUARTO. PRICE TWELVE DOLLARS, POST-PAID. 
THE NATIONAL BUILDER, 
A COMPLETE, PRACTICAL, PLAIN, AND VALUABLE WORK ON 
CONSTRUCTIVE CARPENTRY. 
SHOWING THE SIMPLEST METHODS OF FINDING ALL JOINTS AND GEOMETRICAL FORMS. 
INCLUDING 
SPLAYED WORK, GROINED CEILINGS, FRAMING, ROOFING, DOMES, 
NICHES, RAKING AND LEVEL MOULDINGS, Etc., 
EMBRACING 
©tair-Boiildiiig and Hand- Railing, 
WHICH IS TREATED IN AN ENTIRELY ORIGINAL MANNER ; TOGETHER WITH 
DESIGNS FOE, STAIRCASES, NEWELS, BALUSTERS, AND HAND-RAILS, 
WITH FULL DETAILED EXPLANATIONS, ILLUSTRATED BY NOT LESS THAN 
NINETY-TWO PLATES, WITH ONE THOUSAND FIGURES PRINTED IN COLORS, 
WITH A GLOSSARY, 
FOR THE USE OF 
ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS, CARPENTERS, AND STAIR-BUILDERS. 
By JAMES H. MONOETON, 
Author of "THE AMERICAN STAIR-BUILDER." 
In the preparation of this work the Author has aimed at the most concise 
possible explanations. Carpenters have no time for extensive studies, and 
therefore require a careful selection of what to them will prove of the high- 
est practical utility, the greatest amount of valuable information in the 
smallest compass. In my judgment, no one is qualified to prepare a really 
useful book in any department of instruction who does not know by actual 
labor and experience the practical needs of those whom he seeks to instruct. 
Many years' experience as a workman, a student, and as a teacher of the 
subjects treated, have taught the author what is required, and also the 
best manner of presenting each case so as to make it available to the learner 
with the least effort and time. 
To impart exceedingly valuable information never before published, 
knowin" by experience the need of a complete and practical book on Con- 
structive Carpentry, embracing all modern improvements, is the principal 
reason that induced the author to undertake this work. 
Each drawing has been made and every word written as if no other work 
of the kind had been published, and yet the author acknowledges, to some 
extent, his indebtedness, either directly or indirectly, to every original 
author or mechanic that has preceded him. 
The large and simple reference letters, cast expressly for this work, also 
the two colors of ink used in the accompanying drawings— in this connection 
unique — can not fail to be appreciated by the student. 
Before closing these prefatory remarks, the casual examiner, and more 
particularly the intelligent student, are requested to give special attention to 
the following examples and their treatment : 
A method of drawing every form of face-mould wiihout ordinate?, in connection 
with which the solids Introduced nnd made use of show an easy practical way of 
acquiring a knowledge of the principles of hand-railing. — Plates 3 to 8. 
A second method, nnd an example of every kind of face-mould drown byordinates 
-Plates D, E, and F. 
The ohj ct, application, and nse of face-moulds for squaring wreaths.— Plate 9. 
Shaping the top and bottom of wreath-pieces hy finding correct center lines to 
work from on jho plumbed sides of wreath.— Plate A. 
Tiie proper way to plan and arrange the treads of winding stairs, bead-room, etc. 
—Plate 10. 
How to lay out from its edge a string for winders having treads of different widths 
by the U6e of the mean tread.— Plate 13, fig. 2. 
Case of hand-rail showing how to make one instead of two wreath-pieces servt} 
every practical purpose. Plate 15, figs. 10 and 11. 
Management of a steamboat stairs and hand-rail.— Plate 16. 
Construction of stairs for wholesale stores having close strings, paneling. etc — 
Plate IS. 
Simple method of controlling and working a flat curved side-wreath mitering to 
newel-cap, — Plate 20. 
Angle newcled stairs, designs, plans, and elevations. — Plates 23 nnd -11. 
Bendiug-striugs, building-forms, saw-kerfing, laminated and solid mouldings. — 
Plate 26. 
The true method of planning elliptic stairs. — Plate 32. 
Designs for newels and balusters. — Plates F, 30, 40. and 41. 
Plans and management of close paneled curved strings with continued hand-rails. 
—Plates 33 to 36. 
Twenty-two complete plans of stairs variously arranged, drawn to a scale, nnd all 
their dimensions figured.— Plates,37 and 33. 
Design for wainscoting, thirteen forms for hand-rails.— Plate 30. 
Design for a floral bower, etc.— Plate 42. 
Door-making in detail, including the best hard-wood doors, — Plate 4\ 
now to make window-frames for brick and wood houses.— Plate i-i. 
Sash-making, glazing, and hanging. — Plate 45. 
To find the form from any given moulding for the face-edge of a revolving cutting- 
iron.— Plate 57. 
Splayed work, of great variety.— Plates 58 to 61. 
Pitching planes, a preparatory study to roofing. — Plate G4. 
Roofing, giving bevels and lenglhB of all timbers.— Plates 115 tu 89. 
French roofs, in detail.— Plates 70 and 71. 
Balloon-framing.— Plates SO to S3. 
Wilhout asking further special consideration of the i,l le and uses of the 
remaining contents, and their manner of presentation, the Author would 
say in conclusion, that the most of the above features being new. and not 
before contained in any work on Carpentry, and many of them of very great 
value, the whole is respectfully submitted with the fullest confidence that 
the book will gain the approval of all who require the instruction it proffers. 
UNIFORM WITH WOODWARD'S NATIONAL ARCHITECT. 
ORANGE JUDD & CO., Publishers, 245 Broad^av. New York. 
