Practical Specifcations of Works Executed in Architecture, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, and in Roadmaking and Sewering To Which are Added a Series of Practically Useful Agreements and Reports.

A scarce first edition of this work by English engineer and architect John Blenkarn. Complete with 15 folding plates and a publisher's catalogue to the rear. A comprehensive work of civil engineering. In a green cloth binding. Externally sound. Light rubbing to the boards. Bumping to extremities. Library blind stamps to first few pages and ink stamp to verso of front blank reading "Disposed of by Trinity College Library Dublin". Internally generally firmly bound though strained in places. Pages generally bright with scattered spotting, particularly to title page. Good.