2 Print Reading for Construction
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brown, Walter Charles
Print reading for construction : residential and commercial :
write-in text with 140 large prints / by Walter C. Brown,
Daniel P. Dorfmueller. -- 6th ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-60525-802-7
1. Building--Details--Drawings. 2. Blueprints. I. Dorfmueller,
Daniel P. II. Title.
TH431.B76 2013
692′.1--dc23
2011043759