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    By Samuel Smiles
    London   John Murray
    8" by 5.5" xxxiv [2], 380 pp.
    The popular edition of Smiles’s work, chronicling the lives and undertakings of some of Britain’s greatest civil engineers, illustrated with plates and bound in a full green calf prize binding.
    By Samuel Smiles

    1904 Lives of the Engineers: Early Engineering, Vermuyden, Myddelton, Perry, James Brindley

    London   John Murray
    8" by 5.5" xxxiv [2], 380 pp.
    The popular edition of Smiles’s work, chronicling the lives and undertakings of some of Britain’s greatest civil engineers, illustrated with plates and bound in a full green calf prize binding.
    £150.00
    : 0.75kgs / : 980H19
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    Description

    Illustrated, Leather Binding, Prize Binding, Rebound

    Rebound in a full green calf prize binding for St Mary’s College.

    Popular edition. 

    Illustrated with 6 monochrome plates, including a frontispiece, alongside numerous in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.

    This volume profiles some of the great civil engineers who shaped modern Britain, primarily James Brindley and Hugh Myddelton, Blending narrative with technical history, it presents engineering as both a national achievement and a moral enterprise.

    Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) was a Scottish author and reformer, famed for Self-Help (1859), which popularised the ethic of industry, perseverance, and character, and established him as one of the moral voices of Victorian Britain.

    Condition

    Rebound in a full calf prize binding for St Mary’s College. Externally, very smart. Slight fading to extremities. The odd minor scratch to boards. Spine faded with slight discolouration and creasing. The odd spot to endpapers. Previous seller's discreet label to rear paste down. Slight rubbing to marbled paper of front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to first and last few leaves.

    Very Good Indeed

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