Author: CLARK, Edwin, Resident Engineer. Published with the sanction, and under the supervision, of: STEPHENSON, Robert.
Title: The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges. [Set of Three Volumes, Including Plates Volume]. With General Inquiries on Beams and on the Properties of Materials Used in Construction.
Description: London: Published for the author by Day and Son (Volumes I and II) and by John Weale (Plates), 1850. Three volumes, text volumes royal 8vo., plates volume large folio, pp.xii,466;(vi),467-821,iv;unpaginated plates, text volumes in pictorially blindstamped textured cloth, gilt, with plates volume in matching cloth with pictorial gilt, b/w frontispieces and 16 further b/w plates to Volumes I and II, as well as in-text figures, Volume III comprises 45 plates, including folding plates and tinted lithographs; Volume III mildly ex library, a duplicate copy from the Institute of British Architects, with heraldic bookplate to front paste-down endpaper (with ‘Duplicate’ inkstamp above), and has large water-mark at lower margin throughout, ink ownership autograph (dated 1922) to front free endpapers of Volumes I and II, and ink ownership autograph, dated 1850, to title of Volume III, partial sunning to cloth (spines of Volumes I and II uniformly sunned to brown, with light sunning also to margins of boards; Volume III overall partially sunned), light marking to cloth, rubbing and a little light wear to extremities, a very good set.

Keywords: Engineering Illustrated Industrial Architecture


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