The romance of modern engineering : containing interesting descriptions in non-technical language of the Nile Dam, the Panama Canal, the Tower Bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Niagara Falls Co., Bermuda floating dock &c. &c. / by Archibald Williams, … ; with many illustrations.
Williams, Archibald
Category
Books
Date
1907
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257390
Summary
Bibliographic description
376, [8] p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil price and codes on front pastedown: "1.50 / net / 4X / 1/8". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & stationers, / New York.' Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; single white fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt and red stamped centrepiece on upper board (within a single white fillet border): Tower Bridge; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt stamped crane, gilt lettering and red and white stamped decoration on spine.
Makers and roles
Williams, Archibald, author