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Stairbuilding

Modern Practical Stairbuilding and Handrailing: For the Use of Workmen, Builders, Architects, and Others by George Ellis click to enlarge

Modern Practical Stairbuilding and Handrailing: For the Use of Workmen, Builders, Architects, and Others

George Ellis
Written in the golden age of stairbuilding (1900), this classic text is the most lucid, best illustrated, and authoritative work on the art and science of stairbuilding and handrailing. Full explanations and accurate details of stairs for all situations from passenger ships to castles, including spiral stairs. Excellent summary of stairmaking geometry.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Types of Stairs & Their Classification
2. General Principles of Planning & Design of Stairs
3. Taking Dimentions & Setting Out
4. Small Dogleg Stair
5. A Cottage Dogleg Stair
6. A Small Open-Well Newel Stair
7. A Large Open-Well Newel Stair
8. An Open-Well Newelled Stair in Early Georgian Style
9. A 3-Flight Geometrical Stair
10. A Continuous String, Open-Well Geometrical Stair
11. An Open-Well Geometrical Stair with Reverse Flights
12. Spiral Stairs
13. An Independent, or Circular, Geometrical Stair
14. Varieties of Elliptic Stairs
15. 3-Way Bridge Stairs for Railway Platforms
16. Construction Details of Standard & Exception Types of Stairs with Methods of Execution
17. Methods of Setting Out & Constructing a Curtail Step & Handrail Scroll
18. Designs & Details of Newels, Balusters, Brackets & Handrails
19. Apparatus & Tools Used in Stair Construction & Handrailing
20. The Construction of Wreathed & Twisted Soffit Linings & Framing of Stairs
21. A Geometrical Stone Staircase with Details of Construction
22. Representative Examples of Staircases, Historical & Modern

274 pgs, 7x10, b&w illus, softcover
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