Hints for painters, decorators, and paper-hangers. / Being a selection of useful rules, data, memoranda, methods, and suggestions for house, ship and furniture painting, paper-hanging, gilding, color mixing, and other matters useful and instructive to painters and decorators. Prepared with special reference to the wants of amateurs

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Second and Enlarged Edition.
The Steel Square
AND ITS USES.
By FRED. T. HODGSON.
This is the only work on The Steel Square and Its Uses ever published. It is Thorough, Exhaustive, Clear, and Easily Understood. Confounding terms and scientific phrases have been religiously avoided where possible, and everything in the book has been made so plain that a boy twelve years of age, possessing ordinary intelligence, can understand it from end to end.
The New Edition is Illustrated with over Seventy-five Wood-cuts, showing how the Square may be used for solving almost every problem in the whole Art of Carpentry.
The following synopsis of the contents of the work will give some idea of its character and scope.
—History of the “Square.”—Description, with Explanation of the Rules, Figures, Scales, and Divisions shown on good Squares.
—Brace Rules, Octagonal Scale, Board, Plank and Scantling Rules, fully explained and described.
—How to lay out Rafters, Hips, Jack-Rafters, Purlins, Bevel Works, etc., etc.
—Backing for Hips, Lengths and Bevels of Valley Rafters. Laying out Stairs and Strings.