Excerpt from Stair-Building Made Easy: Being a Full and Clear Description of the Art of Building the Bodies, Carriages and Cases for All Kinds of Stairs and Steps, Together With Illustrations Showing the Manner of Laying Out Stairs, Forming Treads and Risers, Building CylindersFlights, Fliers and Landings. Winders, Spaces and Nosings, Cylinders, Newels and Balusters, Method of Setting Out Stairs, Consecutive Flights, Rules for Laying Out Strings, Graphical Method of Laying Out Stairs, Laying Out Stairs by Figures, Plans of Stairs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.