The carpenter's new guide : being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery ... : the whole founded on true geometrical principles, the theory and practice well explained, and fully exemplified on seventy-eight copper-plates, correctly engraved by the author : including some observations and calculations on the strength of timber
Peter Nicholson's 1793 carpenter's guide, published in London by I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library for working carpenters and joiners, sets out geometric construction of timber work. Its copper-plate engravings show plan and elevation drawings of arches, domes, and roof frames with construction lines, guide circles, and labelled joints a designer could adapt for linear geometric diagrams and structural patterns.
