Excerpt from The Stonemason and the Bricklayer Ike the companion volumes in the present series of works, designed for Home Study or self-instruction in the various departments of Industrial Work, the matter forming the major portion of the present volume appeared originally in the well-known serial entitled The Industrial self-instructor, under the two heads of The Stonemason and The Bricklayer. The leading departments of the two constructive arts were fully described and largely illustrated by a wide and extended range of diagrams in the text, supplemented with a series of full-page plates; but while of necessity many of the textual illustrations were only dia gramatic in character, these amply meeting the requirements of description of various points and principles of work - the illustrations for the most part were working drawings reduced and arranged from drawings and designs used in actual construction. These gave, therefore, an amount of practical information calculated to be of great value to the student. These have nearly all been reproduced in the present volume. 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.