Out of the Rock....
by Bezzant, Norman
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
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About This Item
London : William Heinemann Ltd, 1980. First Edition . Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Octavo (standard book size). Binding is tight, cover and spine fully intact Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting No foxing in this copy Edges mostly clean, some very faint foxing on top edge Boards have some edge wear and quite a few small faded spots on the cloth covers From the cover: “The Roman legions and the Holy Roman missionaries who followed them were to endow successive patrons through fifteen hundred years with a respect and love for the limestones of Wessex. The granites of the Welsh mountains, where the Ordovices had cut primitive axes for their survival, became essential to the Industrial Revolution when canals, roads, and railways all needed stone.
Here, stories of Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren, John Wood, Brunei, Telford and McAdam reveal the progress of building and the development of transport systems as the harnessing of steam — to be followed shortly by electricity and oil — brought power and mechanization to industry.
Out of the Rock… tells the story of the first sixty years’ development of The Bath and Portland Group, now pre20,00eminent in the stone industry. But the author has seen his subject as a cornerstone of history, putting the important and fascinating contribution made by the Group into perspective with England’s political, social, and industrial history. In the broad sweep chosen by the author from prehistory to the Second World War, a pattern of cause and effect between science and history has been woven, to show man’s discoveries of long ago as forerunners of the sophisticated world we know today.”
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Here, stories of Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren, John Wood, Brunei, Telford and McAdam reveal the progress of building and the development of transport systems as the harnessing of steam — to be followed shortly by electricity and oil — brought power and mechanization to industry.
Out of the Rock… tells the story of the first sixty years’ development of The Bath and Portland Group, now pre20,00eminent in the stone industry. But the author has seen his subject as a cornerstone of history, putting the important and fascinating contribution made by the Group into perspective with England’s political, social, and industrial history. In the broad sweep chosen by the author from prehistory to the Second World War, a pattern of cause and effect between science and history has been woven, to show man’s discoveries of long ago as forerunners of the sophisticated world we know today.”
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- Bookseller
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55374
- Title
- Out of the Rock....
- Author
- Bezzant, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1980
- Pages
- 244
- Size
- Octavo (standard book size)
- Weight
- 99.99 lbs
- Keywords
- Architectural History Wales, Bath and Portland Group, stonemasons, stone, architecture
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