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Rendel’s Floating Bridges

Author(s):

Kitteridge, Alan

Illustrator(s):

Binding:

Softcover

Volume Condition:

Near Fine

Dust Jacket:

Dust Jacket Condition:

N/A

Dust Jacket Protection:

N/A

Edition:

–

Impression:

–

Signature:

None

Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Twelveheads Press

Publication Year:

2008

Publication Place:

London, UK

ISBN:

9780906294673

Book ID:

038183

Catalogue(s):

History – British ◇ Transportation

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First edition, first printing. 144pp, with some black and white illustrations. Laminated, illustrated stiff card covers. 8vo. Some very gentle edge wear to card covers else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Invented between the Victorian manias for canals and railways, five floating bridges were built at Dartmouth, Torpoint, Southampton, Saltash and Portsmouth – where land bridges couldn’t be built. Devonian James Meadows Rendel was their reluctant inventor.

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