Modern Practical Stairbuilding and Handrailing

by George Ellis

This republication of the 1932 edition has 51 chapters, 108 plates and numerous illustrations.

Topics include taking dimensions and setting out stairs, geometrical stairs, spiral stairs, varieties of elliptic stairs, newels, balusters, brackets, construction of wreathed and twisted soffit linings, single and geometric handrailing, and formation of scrolls.

Softcover, 352 pages, 1999.