Roads Road Constructing Scarce Set (1 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Various (illustrator). A scarce set that showcases the latest developments in road infrastructure during the 1930s and the beginning of the Second World War in Britain. A scarce set of Roads and Road Constructions: A Monthly Record of Road and Engineering Development. Published by The Carriers Publishing from 1931-1942.In the publisher's original cloth. All volumes contains numerous in-text illustrations of diagrams, photographs and tables, while volume XVII also contains a plate of a vertical curve diagram showing visibility difference. Appears to be a missing advertisement plate to volume IX. Collated complete.Detailing various articles, based on the latest news and developments across road infrastructure in the United Kingdom, this set offers readers valuable information regarding how ours roads changed across the 1930s and into the Second World War. We encounter the latest useful inventions and the perspectives of the engineers who created the foundations of our infrastructure today.Volume IX - 1931Volume X - 1932Volume XII - 1934Volume XV - 1937Volume XVI - 1938Volume XVII - 1939Volume XVIII - 1940Volume XX: Part I - 1942 In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, smart, with the odd small mark to boards and the odd fading patch. Black marks to joints of volumes 9 and 10, with rubbing to joints of volume 10. Rubbing patches to spines of volumes 9, 10, 12 and 16, heaviest to 10 and 16. Rubbing patches to rear of volume 16. Small signs of rubbing to spine labels, heavier to volume 20, with parts of spine label worn off. Fading to the extremities and spines, and to boards of volume 15 and to top half of volume 20 front board. Red sticker to read board of volume XX. Brown end papers are clean with the rare small mark, with slight signs of faint spotting to volume 12. Volume 20 blue end papers are clean, with faint browning to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with minor age toning, marginally heavier to volumes 18 and 20. Very Good. book.