Publisher's Synopsis
A VALUABLE little book not only to students of architecture and architectural drawing, but also to those people who would like to be able to "read plans" and understand what they say to the builder. It is "A step-by-step method for student draughtsmen, together with details of construction and design."
The system of laying out a set of plans is given, drawing accurately and quickly the general lines of the elevation and showing heights. Sizes which are more or less standard, and the ranges through which they are generally used for such details as doors, stairs, flues for chimneys, et cetera, are given, as are also the way these and other details are ordinarily shown on plans and other drawings. While these are intended to teach the student in the drawing of the plans, to quite a large class of people who are building or about to build homes for themselves, these will be of equal value as showing just what is meant by these details on the plans they are studying.
Plates show the usual types of window box construction, gutters and cornices. The similarity of plans and the types into which they fall are shown.
A series of plates show the "Orders of Architecture," Doric, Ionic, etc., as derived from the old classic architecture and so much used in Colonial details, noting that more delicate proportions must be used as applied to wood. Excellent lettering is shown all through the plates.
-"Beautiful Homes Magazine," Volumes 43-44
