The Story of the Roads
by Cyril Hughes Hartmann / [Introduction by Alfred Hacking]
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. First edition. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Uneven fading to front cover; head of spine pushed. Foxing to pages (particularly next to illustrations) and some light soiling, else generally clean. 12 illustrations on plates, including frontispiece. Index. xx, 193, [1] pages. A history of British roads and their administration by Cyril Hughes Hartmann (1896-1967), a British literary scholar and historian. Covers the development of roads, beginning with the Roman era up through the introduction of motor cars. Introduction by Lt.-Col. Alfred Hacking, D.S.O., M.C., who served as the general secretary of the Motor Legislation Committee in the 1920s. Contents: [I] The Early History of Roads. [II] Roads under the Tudors. [III] Roads under the Stuarts. [IV] The Eighteenth Century. [V]The Age of Telford and Macadam. [VI] The Calamity of Railways. [VII The Coming of the Motor Car.
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- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015268
- Title
- The Story of the Roads
- Author
- Cyril Hughes Hartmann / [Introduction by Alfred Hacking]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1927
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- United Kingdom, King's Highway, Great Britain, England, Thomas Telford, John Loudon McAdam, John Loudon Macadam,
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