Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Joints Made and Used by Builders: In the Construction of Various Kinds of Engineering and Architectural Works, With Especial Reference to Those Wrought by Artificers in Erecting and Finishing Habitable Structures
The present work is compiled with the object of its forming a suitable companion to the useful Treatises on Architecture and Engineering included in this series, and which have proved so popular.
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