9780239001870 - The Iron Bridge: Symbol of the Industrial Revolution de Cossons, Neil; Trinder, Barrie (21 resultados)

Condición: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Condición: Good. Good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with minor age tone. DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Former owner name on front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Dine. First Edition. A Very Good or slightly better copy in brown hard covers of this photo-illustrated large-format history, in a Fine dust jacket. Light tanning at the outer edges of the text block, clean/unmarked within. (Not ex-library.). Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Pages clean & bright; binding tight; minor wear to dustjacket. 140 pages. Illustrated. Describes the design and construction of the 1779 iron bridge over the River Severn at Coalbrookdale, UK. Size: 8" x 10".

hardcover. Condición: Acceptable. Dustjacket missing; may have other wear and tear. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

Hardcover. Condición: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 140 p., [3] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports. ; 26 cm. Subjects; Bridges, Iron and steel England History. Bridges England History. Industrial revolution England Coalbrookdale History. 3 Kg.

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:0239001877.

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:0239001877.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 140 pages; 140 p., viii p. of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports. (1 col.) ; 26 cm. Subjects: Bridges, Iron and steel - England - History.Bridges - England - Coalbrookdale. Industrial revolution - England - Coalbrookdale. 3 Kg.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Includes dust jacket. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear. Pages lightly tanned. Secondhand. Very good book.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 140 p., [3] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports. ; 26 cm. Subjects; Bridges, Iron and steel England History. Bridges England History. Industrial revolution England Coalbrookdale History. 1 Kg.

Paperback. Condición: Good. The Iron Bridge ? Symbol of the Industrial Revolution (1979) by Neil Cossons & Barrie Trinder Moonraker Press | ISBN: 0239001877 Condition: Good As sold by Crappy Old Books Some landmarks politely exist in the background, posing for postcards and being ignored by the people who drive past them daily. The Iron Bridge does not have that luxury. It is, quite literally, a statement in metal: the moment Britain decided that wood and stone were fine, but cast iron was the future ? and then built a bridge to prove it. This book is a love letter to that audacity. The Iron Bridge ? Symbol of the Industrial Revolution takes you into Coalbrookdale and Ironbridge Gorge, where the Industrial Revolution wasn?t an abstract textbook chapter but a place you could smell: furnaces, foundries, river transport, labour, innovation, risk, money, and the awkward birth pangs of modern industry. Neil Cossons and Barrie Trinder are exactly the right guides for this world ? grounded, knowledgeable, and keen to show how a single structure can sit at the centre of a whole network of technological change. Because the bridge isn?t just ?a bridge.? It?s a proof-of-concept you can walk across. It?s engineering turned into civic theatre. It?s the point where materials science, industrial capacity, and sheer confidence in human ingenuity all decide to collaborate. You?re not just looking at something pretty spanning the Severn; you?re looking at the early blueprint of the modern built environment ? the ancestor of every steel girder, rivet line, and ?we can build that? instinct that followed. And yes, it?s also a symbol in the most human sense: a monument to progress, ambition, and the slightly alarming truth that a lot of history is driven by people saying, ?Let?s try it,? before anyone has properly asked, ?But what if it goes wrong?? The book digs into the story behind the structure: why it was built, how it was made, what it meant at the time, and how it became the emblem of the Industrial Revolution. You?ll get context ? the industries, the landscape, the local network of production and transport ? and you?ll get the bridge itself as an object of fascination: its design, its construction, its reception, its afterlife. It?s the kind of history that feels satisfyingly physical. Not just dates and names, but materials, places, forces and consequences. And because it?s 1979, there?s an extra pleasing layer: a period when industrial archaeology and heritage were coming into their own, when people were beginning to treat industrial sites not as grubby leftovers but as important cultural treasures. This book sits right in that moment: serious enough to inform, enthusiastic enough to make you want to visit, and proud enough to insist that yes, a bridge can be as historically important as a castle. This copy is Good , meaning it?s been read, handled, and perhaps consulted by someone who either (a) loves bridges, (b) loves the Industrial Revolution, or (c) accidentally fell down the Ironbridge Gorge rabbit hole and never fully recovered. It?s still very much ready for the next reader to admire a feat of engineering and quietly marvel at the fact that humans looked at molten iron and thought, ?Let?s make something elegant.? From Crappy Old Books : because some revolutions are fought with slogans and speeches ? and some are quietly cast, bolted, and then left standing for centuries, making the point without saying a word.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 140 pages; 140 p., viii p. of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports. (1 col.) ; 26 cm. Subjects: Bridges, Iron and steel - England - History.Bridges - England - Coalbrookdale. Industrial revolution - England - Coalbrookdale. 1 Kg.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition, square 4to, 140pp, cold and b/w photo illustrations, previous owner's name front pastedown; o/w VG Copy in VG DJ very mildly creased at top edge Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition. VG+/VG+. Excellent condition with minimal wear. Dust jacket is in a brand new Brodart clear protective sleeve. Interior is clean. No writing or markings of any kind.

Paper covers. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st paperback edition. Book review loosely inserted. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Condición: Good. No dustjacket. Light scuffs/some fading to cover. Light tanning/foxing to textblock edges. Clippings from dustjacket stapled in at front. Content very good.

Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. In 1779 the arches of the first river bridge to be built of cast iron spanned the River Severn at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire. It is now the centrepies of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum and stands as a supreme monument to the Industrial Revolution. This copy is in FINE condition in a FINE priceclipped dustwrapper. Ref A4.

Hard covers, dust jacket. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st edition. Scarcely used. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.