1903 RADFORD STAIR BUILDING NEWEL BALUSTER VICTORIAN NOUVEAU ORNATE CARVED RAILINGS MOULDINGS MULTILEVEL Start Price USD 9.95 Current Price USD 56.00 Time Left - Bid Count 3 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, September 05, 2008 End Time Monday, September 15, 2008 Location Suffolk, Virginia See more about '1903 RADFORD STAIR BUILDING NEWEL BALUSTER VICTORIAN ' Description This is the highly collected, vintage hardcover book titled: Common Sense Stair Building and Handrailing,   by Fred T. Hodgson, published by the Radford Architectural Company; copyright 1903, printed in 1907, 198 pages, 5.5 x 8.5".  The book has green cloth covers, impressed with an illustration, title and author's name on the front cover and bright silver lettering on the spine. It is in good+ condition: the green cloth covers have near heavy edge wear, spine ends and corners are worn with some fraying, back cover rubbed with some color loss and moderate soil. Inside: Previous owner's name on front paste down, front hinge is broken but webbing is still holding, back hinge is a little weak, pages are clean and tight.  This highly illustrated book is filled with amazing illustrations and detailed technical information that would make it a great resource and a fabulous collectible as well. Featuring 25 artistically rendered Victorian and Art Nouveau House plans. From the book: "Handrailing in Three Divisions; Showing three of the simplest methods known in the art, with complete instructions for laying out and working handrails suitable for any kind of a stair, straight, circular or elliptical, or for stairs with landings and cylinders. Stair Building; Covers upwards of 80  pages, devoted to newel or platform stairs chiefly, giving instructions for their building, planning and decoration. Illustrated with over 250 drawings and diagrams, and containing a glossary of terms used in stair building and handrailing and in addition, 25 moderate priced House Designs showing the perspective view and Floor Plan." Please review the content information and the scans below for a better understanding of what this book has to offer. Contents (located at the rear of the book): FIRST METHOD: Advice to Young Workmen ** Straight Flight of stairs ** Acute Landing and Cylinder ** Obtuse Landing and Cylinder ** Half-space and Four Winders  ** Quarter-space and Dancing Winders ** Half Space and Dancing Winders ** Half-space, Cylinder and Dancing Winders ** Circular Stairs ** Diagram of Tangents ** Curve of Face Mould ** Explanatory Diagram ** Rule for Turn-out ** Steps and Risers ** Line of Rail ** Face Moulds ** Facing Mould Lines ** Acute Angle Stairs ** Showing Mould and Pitch ** Blocking Out ** Constructing Cylinder Stretch-out ** Getting Bevels for Butts ** Face Moulds and Stretch-outs ** Ramps over Fliers ** Moulds for Quarter space Stairs ** Stretch-out over Cylinder ** Stretch-out over Circular Well hole ** Face Moulds, Ramps and Stretch-outs ** Final Remarks SECOND METHOD: A Remark or Two ** Given Treads and Risers ** Use of Pitch Board ** Stair Strings and Winders ** Line Theory of Hand railing ** Around a Cylinder ** How to Obtain a Wreath ** Twists and Cylinders ** Cutting Wreath Square to plank ** Beveling Joints THIRD METHOD: Line of Nosings ** Rail over Level Landing ** Face Moulds, Tangents, and Joints ** Center Lines for Rails ** Major and Minor Axes ** Blocking Out for Wreath ** Rail in Position ** Rail at Landing ** Line of Quadrant ** Lay-out of Pitches ** Pitch in cylinder, How Found ** Bevels on Cylinder, How Found ** Bevels on Cylinder ** Face Mould ** Blocking Out ** Plan of Quarter-space Rail ** Wreath Worked Out ** Tangents Unfolded ** Ramp and Pitch ** Stretch-out for Winders ** Ramp and Templets ** Method of Getting Face Moulds ** Plan of Wreath, Risers and Tangents ** Stretch-outs over Landing ** Isometrical Sketch of Wreath ** Stretch-out over Obtuse Landing ** Wreath over Cylinder ** Bevels for Butt Cuts ** Falling Lines and Well ** Use of Pitch-board ** Wreath for Small Cylinder ** Three Points in a Cylinder ** Sliding the Face Moulds ** Mould and Plank ** Nine Sections of Handrails ** General Glossary and Definitions FOURTH METHOD: A Philadelphia Stairway ** A Sensible Stairway ** A Continued Stair ** A Quaint Stair ** A Built-Up Newel ** Built-Up Newels ** Balusters with Brass Brackets ** Cutting Miter Cap ** Cutting Stings ** Carriages for Strings **  Carved Stairway ** Carved Newel Top ** Colonial Stairway ** Carved Newel from Belgium ** Columner Newel ** Chamfering ** Dovetailed Treads ** Double Stairs  ** Details of Carved Stairway ** details of Rail and Finish ** Difference in Balusters ** Diminishing Brackets ** Elevation of Stairs ** Elevation of Housed String ** Ends of steps ** Elevation of Bull-Nose Steps ** Elevation of Stairway ** Elevation of grand Entrance ** Framing Platform Stairs ** Framing a Bull-nose Step ** Four Plans of Stairs ** Fancy Stair and Newel ** Grand Stairs with Landings ** Grand Hall Stairs ** Head Room ** Heavy Carved Newels ** Introduction to Method IV ** Interior View of Stairway ** Newels and Platform Stairs ** Newel Miter Cap ** Nosings  ** Serpentine Newel and Balusters ** Some French Newels ** Spiral Newel ** Tables of treads and Risers This book is an amazing resource as well as an excellent collectible text. 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