The carpenter and joiner's assistant : being a comprehensive treatise on the selection, preparation, and strength of materials, and the mechanical principles of framing, with their application in carpentry, joinery, and hand-railing : also, a course of instruction in practical geometry, geometrical lines, drawing, projection, and perspective : and an illustrated glossary of terms used in architecture and building
A mid-nineteenth-century Scottish technical manual by James Newlands, published in Glasgow in 1860 by Blackie and Son, for carpenters, joiners and students of practical geometry. Its pictures are geometric construction diagrams: projected solids, polygons inscribed in circles, tangent circles and roof or arch layouts drawn in fine black line with lettered points. A designer could borrow their clean line-based structure for schematic, technical or pattern-based layouts.
