Sloan's Constructive Architecture
Author Samuel Sloan American
Lithographer Rosenthal American
Publisher J. B. Lippincott Company American
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148 pages, 66 plates. Binding of faded brown cloth, stamped with gold. This early American book carpentry includes a series of designs for domes, roofs, and spires, and documents current practices in carpentry and building construction, providing American variations on English and European practices. It is one of the first American architecture books to extensively use color illustrations.