Lives of the Engineers; Harbours - Lighthouses - Bridges, Smeaton and Rennie
Author:
SMILES, SAMUEL
Title:
Lives of the Engineers; Harbours - Lighthouses - Bridges, Smeaton and Rennie
Publisher:
John Murray 1874
Description:
SPINE PARTIALLY DETACHED BUT BINDING SOUND, octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration & black rule to front board, frontispiece, ix + 389pp, illus, G+ (spine brittle/cracking & partially detached & flapping, moderate scuffing to extrems, light soiling & chafing to front board, heavy scuffing & minor surface loss to rear board, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, ffep missing, light soiling to eps, prev. owner's name & ink stamp to full title page, some minor ink annotation & underlining to contents page & prelims, occasional moderate crackinglight to moderate soiling & foxing to terminals with ex-libris ink stamp also).
Keywords:
civil engineering engineers biography bridges smeaton rennie lighthouses harbours design construction history