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adding additions and deductions allow angles Arches Architect ARCHITECTURE architrave balusters bead butt bead flush brickwork Building calculate caps CARPENTRY AND JOINERY CHARLES TOMLINSON chimney breasts circular columns Construction cornices describe the thickness describe thickness DICTIONARY dimension ditto door-case doors edges EDWARD DOBSON ends enriched Enumerate all mitres face feet floor foot cube foot run foot super foot super.)-Take front G. D. Dempsey G. R. Burnell girth giving sizes glued GRAMMAR hips illustrated with cuts iron IVY LANE jamb linings Joiner joints labour length by width lineal Mason moulded nett newel PATERNOSTER ROW plain plastering plinths Principles pulley pieces rail rebated risers roof round Rudimentary Treatise Sashes scantling scantling lengths screw separate shutters sill sketch skirtings soffit spandril Specify splayed square stone strings sunk Take the length taken VIRTUE VIRTUE & CO W. D. Hamilton wall-plates WEALE'S WILLIAM BLAND winders wood bricks wrought
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