Handbook For Engineers, Architects and Builders: Containing Tables and Data Appertaining to Steel Construction

See photos for condition details. Original flexible leather handbook produced by theVirginia Bridge & Iron Company. Brown leather exterior with gilt to front and spine. Exterior shows edge and corner chips/wear and chipping is also present at top and bottom of spine. Interior binding is good, no hinge issues, nothing torn or loose. Previous owners name is written on front pastedown and it was also found two more times on interior pages, where it was written along the top edge. The blank pages in the back along with the graph paper pages are all handwriting free. Only handwriting found in book were the three signatures in the number 238 written along the page edge of the copyright page. This is the first edition, which shows no copyright or print date other than the serial designation of 9-16 (September, 1916). This is an extremely rare publication with only a few third editions surviving, this one being the first.