Description of the Iron Bridges of Suspension now erecting over the Strait of Menai, at Bangor and over the River Conway in North Wales......

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1st ed, 1824, VG, 2 pls, complete. In modern full buckram, gilt titles to spinet. Internally, new endpapers, frontis, [3], 4-55 pp, [1], 16 adverts, 2 pls (aquatints, including frontis, B&W, folding), plates dated 1824, 1 pl watermarked 1824, ink ownership signature to title page (George Peel), binders stamp to fpd (Delrue), paper repair to tear at base of p 33/34, occasional minor foxing and some light browning, printed by S. Gosnell. There was a second edition printed in 1828. Uncommon. (Allibone 2447. Abbey 526). (227*132 mm). Title continues: Description of the Iron Bridges of Suspension now erecting over the Strait of Menai, at Bangor and over the River Conway in North Wales; with two views: also some account of the different bridges of suspension in England and Scotland; Particularly of Captain S Brown's Iron Bar Bridge over The River Tweed. With remarks on the proposed suspension bridge over The River Mercy, at Runcorn Gap; and some calculations of the strength of malleable iron, founded on experiments.