Author: SIMMS, FREDERICK WALTER, F.R.A.S. F.G.S. M.INS.C.E., & D. KINNEAR CLARK, M.INST.C.S., M.INST.MECH.E.
Title: Practical Tunnelling. Explaining in Detail the Setting Out of the Works.....
Description: London, Crosby Lockwood and Son. 1896, Fourth Edition Revised & Enlarged. Hardback, 190mm x 280mm tall (7.5" x 11" approx.). Pp xxxi, 548, with 88 diagrams in the text, Plus 34 plates, many folding or multi-folding and with the majority containing several illustrations, plus Pp (ii) Publisher's adverts for "Important books for railway engineers" including D. Kinnear Clark's "Tramways: Their Construction and Working". Rubs to spine edges, Neatly recased with stronger endpapers some years ago with the red & black-printed prize label from 1923 preserved on the front pastedown, together with the green & white locomotive-illustrated bookplate of F.J. Haut. [Haut was the Author of "Early Electric Locomotives" & " A History of the Electric Locomotive" (1980), whose extensive collection of Railway books was auctioned at Bonham's, Chelsea] Some minor browning of plate blank margins and the external rubs, etc. referred to, otherwise good to very good in the original maroon cloth-covered, bevelled-edged boards/gilt spine title & front board Publisher's logo. The Fourth is the most extensive and best Edition. Weighing almost 2 kilos even before packing, some additional postage may be required. Good.

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