Newlands, James. The carpenter and joiner's assistant: being a comprehensive treatise on the selection, preparation, and strength of materials, and the mechanical principles of framing with their application in carpentry, joyery, and hand-railing ... XIII, 208 pp., 23 Bl. With title vignettes, 100 plates and numerous text illustrations. 34 x 24 cm. OHalf leather (breath and toast) with gold stamped RSchild. London, Blackie & Son, (1880). Manual for joiner and joiner apprentices with a comprehensive paper on the selection, preparation and strength of materials by Scottish civil engineer James Newlands (1813-1871). – Internal joint open. With several folds, pretitles with larger tear and a little patchy.