Excerpt from Draftsman's Manual, Or, How Can I Learn Architecture?: Hints to Enquirers, Directions in Draftsmanship, New Revised and Enlarged Having frequently been asked, by wide awake young car. painters and builders, how best to qualify themselves for practising the profession of Architecture, I have in the following pages set down the steps which to that class are necessary and expedient, in the order that they must be undertaken. In the hope that what I here set forth may be found of use to such mechanics as arc of inquiring minds in this direction, and that such as are of the right stuff may be encouraged and helped, I trust this little attempt to its public. In attempting to supply by these simple directions a want which has frequently been expressed to me, I will confine my scope strictly to a practical description of the methods in use for placing upon paper and other materials those somewhat mystic lines called plans, elevations, and sections - so often erroneously denominated Architecture when the word ought to be Draftsmanship. The query generally runs, "I want to learn architecture;" a term often much broader than the real intention in the majority of instances, as the ambitious ones only mean that they want to learn how to make plans, sections, elevations, and details. They don't really want to go through the course necessary to thoroughly inform them as to the History of Architecture; the styles - classic, Gothic, and Renaissance: but they think that the draftsmanship necessary to enable them to draw plans, etc., of common, everyday city and country houses is Architecture; and so they want to "learn" it. I have presumed in the foregoing that the real desire on the part of any inquirers U to learn draftsmanship and not architecture; and of the former I shall treat first, reserving the topic of architecture until the previous one of draftsmanship is disposed of. 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.