I have carefully examined the "Carpenter's Assistant and Rural Architect," and believe it to be a work well adapted to meet the wants of the practical workman, being practical in its character, and valuable for the perspicuity of its arrangement, clearness of its designs, and brevity of its explanations.
I would most cheerfully recommend it to the patronage of carpenters and students.
ELBRIDGE BOYDEN, Architect.
Mr. Brown:
Sir,—I have examined your work on architecture, and feeling confident of its utility, from its extreme simplicity and singular adaptedness to meet the wants of the carpenters, I do cheerfully recommend it to the condition of every carpenter especially the apprentice, who will find all the rudiments of architecture necessary as well as designs for practice.
A.L. BROOKS.
LIVERMORE & RUDD, Publishers,
310 Broadway, New York.
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