07. Timber, Carpentry, &C

  • Mathurin Jousse. L’Art de Charpenterie. 3rd ed, C-A Jombert, Paris 1751.

  • Francis Price, The British Carpenter, or, A treatise on Carpentry: containing the most concise and authentick rules of that art, in a more useful and extensive method, than has been made publick. 3rd ed. C Hitch & L Hawes, London 1753.

  • William Pain. The Practical House Carpenter; or Youth's Instructor, &c.  I & J Taylor, London 1792.

  • André-Jacob Roubo. L'Art de Menuisier en Batimens et en Meubles; extrait, en partie, de l'ouvrage de Roubo (Planches). Audot, Paris 1819.

  • Thomas Tredgold. Elementary Principles of Carpentry. J Taylor, London 1820.

  • Peter Nicholson. Nicholson's New Carpenter's Guide. Enlarged edition. London 1825.

  • [Peter Nicholson]. Practical Carpentry, Joinery and Cabinet-Making. London 1839 (1826).

  • Thomas Tredgold. Elementary Principles of Carpentry. Appendix to the Second Edition. London 1840.

  • R G Hatfield. The American House-Carpenter. 5th ed, New York 1852 [1844].

  • E L Tarbuck. The Encyclopædia of Practical Carpentry and Joinery, &c. Leipzig, no date [?c 1860].

  • H W Holly. The Carpenter's and Joiner's Hand-Book. John Wiley & Son, New York 1865 [1863],

  • H W Holly. The Carpenter's and Joiner's Hand-Book &c. New York 1876.

  • H W Holly. The Carpenter's and Joiner's Hand Book. Revised ed, New York & London 1904

  • James Newlands. The Carpenter and Joiner's Assistant. Glasgow, &c. 1865.

  • R S Burn. The New Guide to Carpentry, General Framing, and Joinery. Glasgow, Melbourne & Dunedin, no date [c 1870]. First issued in parts between 1868 and 1872, then as a book by at least three publishers. Includes examples from the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition [ref Beattie Book Co, list 408, item 39 (2002)]..

  • Samuel Worssam & Co. Illustrated Catalogue of Patented and Approved Wood-Working Machinery. London 1878.

  • [p] Willer Manufacturing Co. Catalogue No. 10 Pocket Edition. Milwaukee [Wisconson] 1890. [Link]

  • S Barter. Woodwork (the English Sloyd). London 1892.

  • George Collings. Roof Carpentry. London 1893. Weale's Rudimentary Series (now published by Crosby Lockwood).

  • P N Hasluck. The Wood Turner's Handybook. 5th ed, London 1898.

  • W E Bell. Carpentry Made Easy. 3rd ed, Philadelphia 1902 [1857].

  • F T Hodgson. Modern Carpentry. Riverside [Illinois] 1902.

  • Owen Maginnis. Roof Framing Made Easy. 2nd ed, New York 1903 (1896).

  • Ishi Usaburo, 新撰大匠雛形大全 [Shinsen Taisho Hinagata Taizen] 6 vols, Seikado, Osaka 1897.

  • G L Sutcliffe [ed]. The Modern Carpenter Joiner and Cabinet-Maker. 8 vols, London 1903. Seven vols only: III missing.

  • W A Radford [ed]. Framing. Chicago 1909.

  • W A Radford [ed]. Framing. Chicago 1919 [1908].

  • Oliver Machinery Co. Catalog No. 16: Patented Wood Working Machinery and Factory Supplies. Grand Rapids [Michigan] 1910.

  • G Jennings & Co. Price List. Bristol 1912.

  • P N Hasluck [ed]. Cassell's Carpentry and Joinery. Philadelphia 1912.

  • North American Wood Products Corporation. Universal Millwork Design Book No.20. New York 1926.

  • D F Holtman. Wood Construction. New York 1929. A definitive work, produced by the National Committee on Wood Utilization, at the direction of Herbert Hoover.

  • Carl Schäfer, Deutsche Holzbaukunst (Wolfgang Jeß, Dresden 1937).

  • F D Graham & T J Emery. Audels Carpenters and Builders Guide. 4 vols, New York 1949 [1925]

  • E W Hobbs. Home Carpenter's Practical Guide. Sydney 1945 [London 1933

  • Rock Island Lumber Co [Rilco], untitled photograph album (Rilco,  Albert Lea [Minnesota], no date [1940]).

  • Richard Greenhalgh [ed]. Joinery and Carpentry. 2nd ed, 6 vols, London 1946. Vol IV missing.

  • R V Boughton. The New Carpenter and Joiner. 3 vols, London, no date. There is a reference on p viii to LCC by-laws for timber construction as having come into force on January 1938. James W Beattie, catalog 138 no 40, ascribes the date 1947 to an edition which is similar but not identical (269, 266 & 269 pages, as compared with 269, 269 & 268).

  • H J Hansen. Modern Timber Design. New York 1943.

  • W L Goodman. The History of Woodworking Tools. London 1964.

  • (p) Stanley Works (G.B.) Ltd. A Brief History of the Woodworker's Plane. Sheffield, no date.

  • Canadian Wood-Frame House Construction. No place [Canada] 1968.

Timber

  • P B Eassie. Wood and its Uses. Gloucester 1874.

  • P A Wells. Soft Woods and Colonial Timbers. London, no date [c 1904].

  • P A Wells. Hard Woods English and Foreign. London, no date. [c 1904].

  • J R Basterden. Timber. Archibald Constable, London 1908.

  • H Trotter. The Commercial Timbers of India and their Uses. Calcutta 1929.

Preservation

  • John Papworth, Essay on the Causes of Dry Rot in Buildings, &c, author, London 1803.

  • (p) George Birkbeck. The Preservation of Timber by Kyan's Patent(paper delivered at the Society of Arts, 9 December 1834). London, no date. [?1835].

  • T A Britton. Dry Rot in Timber. London 1875. Copy formerly owned by the famous Western Australian engineer G A Julius, inscribed by him 26 August 1907.

Joinery

  • P N Hasluck [ed]. Cabinetwork and Joinery. London 1909.

  • [p] Whitney Window Corporation, The Whitney Window: Progess in Windows [leaflet folded from poster size] (Whitney, Minneapolis [Minnesota] no date [c 1914]).
    Accompanied by the original posting envelope and two sheets of printed drawings:
    Directions for Installing
    Whitney Window Mill Detail

  • W B McKay. Joinery. London 1947 [1946].

  • (p) Andersen Corporation, Andersen Windowalls, Detail Catalog no. 551 1955, Complete Wood Window Units [A.I.A. file no. 16L]. Andersen Windowalls, Bayport [Minnesota] 1955.

Stair building

  • Joshua Jeays. The Orthogonal System of Hand-Railing. London 1850. Jeays emigrated to Moreton Bay [Brisbane] in 2852 and practised locally as an architect.

  • Robert Riddell. The Carpenter and Joiner, Stair-Builder and Hand-Railer. ?2nd ed, no date [original 1860]. Inscribed 'T J OSullivan / Union Road / Penrith'

  • J F Dowsett. Practical Staircase Joinery. London 1899 [1907 reprint].

  • P N Hasluck [ed]. Practical Staircase Joinery. London 1907 [1899].

  • P N Hasluck [ed]. Stairbuilding and Handrailing. London 1929.

Steel square

  • F T Hodgson. The Carpenter's Steel Square and its Uses. New York 1880.

  • F T Hodgson. The Carpenter's Steel Square, and its Uses. 4th ed, New York 1906 [1880].

  • F T Hodgson. The Carpenter's Steel Square and its Uses, &c. 3rd ed, Industrial Publication Company, overpasted Palliser, Palliser & Co. New York 1890 [1880, 1883].

  • F T Hodgson.  Steel Squares and their Uses, &c. 3rd ed, Industrial Publication Company, New York 1890.

  • F T Hodgson. ABC of the Steel Square and its Uses. Chicago 1908.

  • F T Hodgson. A Practical Treatise on the Steel Square and its Application in Everyday Use.  2 vols, Frederick J Drake & Co, Chicago 1904.

  • [F T Hodgson]. The Steel Square and its Uses. Chicago 1925.

  • F T Hodgson. A Practical Treatise on the Steel Square. Revised ed, 2 vols, 1913 [1903] & 1917 [1903].

  • (p) I & D Smallwood. Instructions for the Use of Carpenters and Framing or Rafter Steel Squares.  I & D Smallwood Ltd, Birmingham, no date.

  • David Grant. The Steel Square: its Use and Mechanism. London 1957 [1936].

Fibre Boards

  • (p) Scientific Australian, xxviii, 12 (15 March 1923): includes, pp 131-4, S G Roberts, 'Manufacturing Fibre Board from Sugar Cane Waste'.

  • Celotex, In Your Home – of any Kind or Cost You Need Celotex (Celotex, Chicago, 1935.

  • The Celotex Company. Emploi du Celotex dans le Batiment. Celotex, Chicago, no date.

  • (p) H Beecham & Co Pty Ltd. Donnacona Insulating Board. Melbourne, no date [1939]. [Link]

  • Fibre Building Boards. London 1947.

  • (p) Ankarviks Ångsågs Aktiebolag. Fibre Building Board, Ankarboard, Insulation and Hardboards, Manufactured in Sweden,Technical Notes for Architects and Builders. Sundsvall [Sweden] no date. [Link]

See also:

(sec 5) Treatise on Architecture 2. [incl] Carpentry, Joinery Treatise on Architecture 3. [incl] Stair Building I C S Reference Library 14. Carpentry (sec 6) Christy, Joints Used by Builders (sec 36) Ward, Timbers of New South Wales Lord & Hughes, Timber and Building Materials Warren, Australian Timbers Tasmanian Timbers Baker, The Hardwoods of Australia Clarke, Seasoning of W.A. Hardwood Farmer & Co, Australian Timbers (sec 37) CSIR TIMBER PUBLICATIONS (sec 54) Kent, Hints to Gentlemen.

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