Description of the iron bridges of suspension
Subtitle: erected over the Strait of Menaï, at Bangor; over the River Conway, in North Wales; and over the River Thames, at Hammersmith; with views: also some account of the different bridges of suspension in England and Scotland; ...
By: By T.G. Cumming, surveyor
Edition: Second edition, considerably enlarged.
Publisher: Printed for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library
Published: 1828
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Suspension bridges; Ponts suspendus
Notes: Imprint of J. Moyes appears on the verso of the title-leaf. First edition: 1824.

: Revised and enlarged from the first edition (1824), with additions to the account of the Menai Bridge, an entirely new chapter and plate devoted to the Hammersmith bridge (completed in 1827), and the inclusion of a number of wood-engravings. Some copies have the first edition imprint 'Printed for J. Taylor, High Holborn. 1824' intact on the plates of the Menai and Conway Bridges, and on the new plate of Hammersmith bridge an imprint line reading 'Published by Josiah Taylor, Architectural Library, High Holborn.' See Abbey, Scenery, 526 for a description of the first edition.

Signature: 8:̲ A⁸ B-E⁸ F⁴. [44 leaves] $1 signed.

C20th cloth-backed boards. Imperfect: wanting the half-title. Purchased Nov. 1948.