Excerpt from Practical Carpentry, Joinery, and Cabinet Making: Being a New and Complete System of Lines for the Use of Workmen, Founded on Accurate Geometrical and Mechanical Principles; With Their Application in Carpentry, to Roofs, Domes, Centring, Etc.; In Joinery, to Stairs, Hand-Rails, Soffits, Niches, EtcWe have uniformly observed, that Carpenters, Joiners, and cabinet-makers, are alike distinguished for their superior knowledge in the scientific principles of their respective Arts; and, as it frequently happens that the whole of these arts are followed by a single individual, and the arts themselves having considerable relation, in consequence of being all more or less dependent on the same common principles, we have brought these important arts together into one Work.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.