The Publishers respectfully ask the attention of the Public to this work, believing that anything that is calculated to favor an advance in the industrial arts, must meet with the approbation of all who seek the elevation of the masses, and cannot fail to be appreciated by the intelligent artisan.
GOULD’S AMERICAN HOUSE-CARPENTERS AND JOINER’S ASSISTANT
Places within the reach of a Carpenter, with no other necessary preparation than an ordinary education, and a knowledge of the practical principles of his handicraft, the highest efforts of the constructive art. It contains practical directions for performing the most difficult tasks of the business, for cutting every description of joints, framing and constructing every variety of roofs, mitering, splayed work, hand railing, &c., and to all this are added tables of the weight and cohesive strength of the different materials used in the construction of buildings, and a
COMPLETE TREATISE ON MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS,
Making the reader familiar with the tools of his study. The work is
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BY ACCURATE AND BEAUTIFUL PLATES,
And should be in the hands of every Carpenter and Joiner whose ambition reaches beyond the bench and the workshop.
Persons desirous to canvass for the sale of this work, can learn terms, &c., by addressing the Publishers, post-paid.
One large Quarto Volume, 175 pages, price, $3.00.
A copy of the work will be sent by Mail, free of postage, to any person remitting the sum above named.