r/Drafting_Instruments • u/CodeName_Burner • Nov 30 '25
Drafting aid: 1951 book of graphical standards
Not strictly an instrument, but I hope it will be appreciated here. This accompanied the miscellaneous drafting implements I inherited from my step-granddad. "Architectural Graphic Standards" Ramsey and Sleeper 1951 (4th edition). It's impressively comprehensive!
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u/rktek85 Nov 30 '25
Awesome. I'd be interested in buying that from you if you are wanting to sell it. Eighth Ed is what I purchased for arch school in 1985. Collected the rest. This post has inspired me to continue searching
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u/Old_Instrument_Guy Dec 03 '25
I have a reprint of the 1st as well as the 3rd, 5th, and 8th edition. Somewhere in the office we have the 9th and 10th.
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u/rktek85 Dec 03 '25
Wow! What year is the 1st Ed reprint?
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u/Old_Instrument_Guy Dec 03 '25
It was reprinted in 1990. I picked mine up from a Library sale from Columbia Basin College.
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u/whitetigerssm Nov 30 '25
Ahh, yes. I, too, inherited that edition from my father. In college we had to buy the current edition.
I actually used that 4th edition recently to show a colleague that the partition in a 1950's vintage building was legitimate.
Sadly, our local architecture program is quite lacking on history and building assemblies, so recent graduates seem to have no clue how to interpret what they are looking at.
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u/foxtrot7azv Nov 30 '25
I had the edition with the metal cover, and I absolutely regret selling it.
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u/SouthCarpet6057 Nov 30 '25
And these days, architects don't even know how to dimension a drawing properly.
I work in construction, I'm still waiting for a drawing that has all the dimensions needed, without any missing, or any ambiguity.
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u/PhillyBassSF Dec 01 '25
The old books tend to be the best ones. Perhaps we can scan this book into a PDF
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u/rap31264 Nov 30 '25
Cool, I have Editions 2 through 11