Practical Masonry: A Guide to the Art of Stone Cutting

The construction, setting-out, and working of stairs, circular work, arches, niches, domes, pendentives, vaults, tracery windows, etc. etc. To which are added supplemets realting to masonry estimating and quantity surveying, and to building stones and marbles, and a glossary of terms. For the use of students, masons, and other workmen. This book is intended to initiate young beginners in the craft into the rules and principles of good masonry.