Excerpt from An Improved and Enlarged Edition of Biddle's Young Carpenter's Assistant: Being a Complete System of Architecture for Carpenters, Joiners, and Workmen in General; Adapted to the Style of Building in the United States For the revisal and correction of this new edition of the Young Carpenter's Assistant, the Publisher is indebted to the care and professional knowledge of Mr. John Haviland, Architect, whose great practical experience so pre - eminently enables him to adapt the work to the present time, and to impart much additional informa tion and valuable matter on each subject. A series of forty-eight New Designs and beautiful Specimens, chiefly of full size, accompanied with their working-drawings, and parts explanatory of the Modern Finish, in detail, have been introduced by Mr. Haviland for the immediate applica tion of the Practical Carpenter and Builder. They are calculated to instruct him either in the designing or execution of dwelling-houses, Banks, Prisons, Doors, Windows, Railing, Skirting, Cornices, and Marble Mantles. The whole is partien larly adapted for country use; and, as nothing has been omitted which can tend to his information, it is presumed that this will be rendered the most complete and useful book to the young workman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.