Product Description: First published in 1887, Fences, Gates, and Bridges is an instructional guide to the best ways to build a variety of fences, gates, hedges, bridges, and culverts. The section on fences boasts a wealth of information on building various types of fences, including rail, composite, garden, board, and picket...read more

Product Description: The only collection of the best methods for building in all kinds of terrain and climate, Fences, Gates, and Bridges is a functional pocket manual. Fence designs include the zigzag, the stone, as well as the portable barbed-wire fence...read more

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Product Description: All about building entrances to the home. Detailed charts for identification of parts and joints, steps for constructing and hanging, exercises for perfecting building skills, and dozens of designs. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A helpful guide includes numerous photos and illustrations and thirty-three designs for fences and gates, from traditional to contemporary, with techniques for layout, setting posts, attaching rails, and installing fences. Original. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This looks like an 18th-century pattern book for wooden fences, down to the typography and spelling. Pen and ink illustrations.

Shows a variety of fences, introduces useful tools and techniques, discusses stock fences, and shows how to erect fences and gates

Shows a variety of fences, introduces useful tools and techniques, discusses stock fences, and shows how to erect fences and gates

Shows how to use wood, concrete, bricks, and stones to build a variety of fences, suggests what type suits different locations and purposes, and tells how to overcome installation problems

Describes a fence's functions, shows traditional fence styles, and explains layout and construction techniques