Zerah Colburn; W. H. Maw; J. Dredge — Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal

London, Office for Advertisments and Publications, 1866-1870 . First edition. Cloth. Twenty-five volumes of the periodical 'Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal', richly illustrated throughout and highly informative. Present here are twenty-five volumes from the very scarce periodical.Present here are: 1866, No. 6, June 1st - June 29th 1866; 1868, Nos. 7 - 12, consisting of issues published between July 3rd, 1868 and December 25th, 1868; all twelve Nos. published in 1868, from January 1st - December 31st 1869, and finally, Nos. 1-6 1870, from January 7th, 1870 - June 24th, 1870.Illustrated with four folding plates to 1869, No. 1. Collated, complete.With further vignette and full page illustrations throughout each volume.Articles discuss a vast array of matters, including the completion of the Solway Viaduct, scandals in telegraphing, ventilating fireplaces, recent patents, the New York 'Arcade' Railway, Scarborough harbour improvementsWith technical illustrations of the suspension bridge of Singapore, the port of the London Docks, the 'apparatus for the saponification of fatty matters under pressure', 'apparatus for slotting expansion links at the North London railway works', Captain Pencrice's tunnelling machine, the Croydon Commercial Gas Works, experimental refrigerators, and the bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis.The 1866-1869 volumes are 'conducted by' Zerah Colburn, an American engineer and locomotive designer who founded the paper as a rival to 'The Engineer&apos.The 1870 volumes are edited by British civil engineer and astronomer William Henry Maw, and J. Dredge, following the death of Colburn.Library stamps to endpapers, and library labels to back strip tails. In cloth backed paper covered boards. Bumping to back strip heads and tails, with losses of cloth in these regions. Tape library labels to tail of each back strip. Handling marks to boards. Front joints of four volumes, rear joints of four volumes, and front and rear joint of a further two volumes starting, with boards firmly held. A number of further hinges strained, with boards holding firm. Library stamps to front free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned but bright, with only the odd spot or light handling mark. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .