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    By Arthur T. Walmisley
    London   E. & F. N. Spon
    15" by 11" [5], 91pp. (70)
    The second edition of Arthur Walmisley's very scarce illustrated study iron railway station roofs, heavily illustrated with architectural and engineering illustrations.
    By Arthur T. Walmisley

    1888 Iron Roofs, Examples of Design. Description, Illustrated with Working Drawings

    London   E. & F. N. Spon
    15" by 11" [5], 91pp. (70)
    The second edition of Arthur Walmisley's very scarce illustrated study iron railway station roofs, heavily illustrated with architectural and engineering illustrations.
    £495.00
    : 2kgs / : 961Z21
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    Description

    Folding Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

    The second edition. First published in 1884. 

    Illustrated with seventy monochrome plates, including folding plates. Collated, complete. 

    A heavily illustrated architectural and engineering study on iron railway roofs by Arthur T. Walmisley, a civil engineer. The work provides a description and explanation of roofs, with informative diagrams and figures, with a fantastic collection of seventy illustrations and diagrams depicting the iron roofs of notable railway stations such as Bradford exchange station, Bristol station, Manchester central station and many more. 

    Includes a telegram from 'J. M. Bannett & Sons' Timber merchants on the subject of gauges. 

    Bound in modern cloth. Endpapers renewed, retaining original blanks and half title.

    Condition

    Bound in modern cloth. Endpapers renewed, retaining original blanks and half title. Externally lovely. Internally firmly bound with very minimal age toning to the extremities, and the odd spot, heavier to the front and rear. Owner's ink inscription to the front blank.

    Near Fine

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