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).
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 DetailW 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.