The builder & workman's new director : comprehending definitions and descriptions of the component parts of buildings. the principles of construction and the geometrical development of the principal difficulties that usually occur in the different branches of mechanical professions employed in the erection of edifices
Peter Nicholson's 1824 London builders' handbook, published by John Day and partners, offers geometrical development of construction problems for architects and craftsmen. Its plates show plane and curved geometric constructions, including cylinder and cone intersections drawn in perspective with projection lines, giving designers clear diagrams of how curved forms meet and develop.
