This work provides a clear and simple guide to the subject, based on meticulous and beautiful drawings. Organized in three sections, it includes chapters on construction details; methods of working particular structural shapes; both basic and advanced geometry and setting-out.It also includes forms and tables omitted from later editions to be used as templates for costing and estimating work.These are as relevant today as they were in the 1920s.It includes a new introduction by Christopher Weeks.