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

by An Old Hand

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.

—How to describe Circles, Ellipses, Parabolas and other figures, with the Square.

—How to obtain Bevels for Hoppers and all kinds of Splayed Work and Spring Mouldings, by the Square.

—Bisecting Circles, Proportion of Circles, Division of Widths, Bisection of Angles, Diminishing Stiles, Centering Circles, etc., etc.

—Theoretical Rafters, Cuts for Mitre Boxes, Measurement of Surfaces, including Painting, Plastering, Shingling, Siding, Flooring, Rough Boarding, Tinning and Roofing.