Stone Masonry
Stone masonry has possibly been around since the dawn of civilization - with people creating buildings, structures, and sculpture using stone from the earth. Some of our earliest stone-work was in the form of knapping stones, from which tools were made. No doubt this skill translated into working with stone for construction. We have more information on stone tool making on the archaeology page. If you would like to know more about stone masonry, we have 5 (five) wonderful old books on the subject. These 5 books are all on one CD, which is available for just $6.00 (including free postage) from our eBay Store called
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2. Practical Masonry: A Guide To The Art Of Stone Cutting, The Construction, Setting Out, and Working Of Stairs, Circular Work, Arches, Niches, Domes, Pendentives, Vaults, tracey Windows, etc. By William Purchase written in 1904, with 236 pages. "This work has been compiled, not with the view of superseding any of the works already published dealing with the architectural or geometrical side of the stone-cutter's art, but as a means of introducing the student of Masonry to the practical work of everyday life in the workshop and on the building. It has no pretensions to instruct skilled workmen, but is intended to initiate young beginners in the craft into the rules and principles of good masonry. It is the result of many years' attentive observation and practical experience, acquired by the Author first as an operative stone-mason, and afterwards as a foreman mason, on some of our largest public buildings." 3. Practical Masonry, Bricklaying, and Plastering, Both Plain and Ornamental: Containing A New and Complete System of Lines For Stone-Cutting For The Use Of Workmen; With Ample Detail of The Theory And Practice of Constructing Arches, Domes, Groins, Niches, Stairs, Columns, Bonds Foundations, Walls, Bridges, Tunnels, Light-Houses, Ovens and Furnaces, with The Formation of Mortas and Cements, by Peter Nicholson in 1841, 365 pages. "Our plan consists in separately treating the Arts of Construction, and elucidating them by grouping together those principal branches which have a natural relation to each other, and which require similar operations, and in which a workman in the one always has an advantage in knowing the principles of the others; and we are the more powerfully encouraged to proceed in it, by the knowledge that this plan is as new as it will be found useful, and we trust the Work itself will bear the palm, as well for originality and beauty, as for its practical utility." 4. Bricklaying by Owen B. Magginis written in 1901 is 85 pages in length. "The contents are made up of serial and individual articles written for the most important magazines and journals devoted to the Profession and Trade, and are now collated, revised, edited and published together; with other valuable information, given me by those directing operations. Much, too, has been gathered in my own daily observation and experience in building construction during the past twenty years. 5. Stones For Building and Decoration is 470 pages in length, written by George P. Merrill in 1891. “That there is a demand for a comprehensive and not too technical a work on this subject has been emphatically impressed upon the writer many times during the past few years. How far the pages herewith presented shall supply this demand, it is left for the public to decide.” These old books on stone masonry have been transcribed or scanned and made into PDF files. To read them you put the CD in your computer, and open up the files with Acrobat Reader (most computers have this application).
5 Books On stone masonry for $6.00
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