The Story of the Roads

Cyril Hughes Hartmann / [Introduction by Alfred Hacking]

Verlag: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1927

Beschreibung

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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 015268

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Story of the Roads

Verlag: George Routledge & Sons Ltd.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1927

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition.