Braithwaite & Co. Engineers Limited [First Edition – Publisher’s Original Cloth Binding]

London: Dorland House, Regent Street, 1946, First and Only Edition. In the publisher’s red cloth binding with gilt titles to the front board and spine, gently rubbed and worn but in remarkably good condition, for a book published nearly 80 years ago. Chapters include: Bridges, Piers, Wharves and Jetties, Screwcrete Foundations, Pipe Lines, Power Stations, Steel Framed Structures, Steel Towers and Pylons, Welded Structures, Railway Wagons, Pressed Steel Tanks, World War II, 1939-1945. Pagination: unpaginated, [vii text] with 215 black and white photographic images of engineering feats. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates. Approximately 13 ¼ inches tall (34cm). Condition Report Externally Spine – very good condition – bright gilt titles, rubbed and worn. Joints – good condition – sound, rubbed and worn. Corners – good condition – rubbed and worn. Boards – good condition – original buckram cloth boards, rubbed and worn, gilt to the front board. Page edges – good condition – tanned. See above and photos. Internally Hinges – good condition – sound. Paste downs – good condition – pictorial. End papers – good condition – pictorial. Title – good condition – tanned. Pages – good condition – tanned, a black line mark to the ‘title’ page for Power Stations. Binding – good condition – structurally sound. …