Description:
Chicago, Illinois: Gillette Publishing Company; London: E. & F.N. Spon, Limited, 1929. First edition, "Third Thousand." Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"}, [10], 295 & [7] pages, illustrated. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered & decorated in gilt on the upper cover. Top edge gilt.Lightly rubbed, spine gilt dull, text block cracking in a couple of places (still secure), brief gift inscription at the first blank page, sporadic foxing, otherwise a very good or better copy.
An exhaustive & profusely illustrated treatise covering bridge design & construction, steel towers, ornament, aesthetics, biographies of engineers, etc.
