Cossons trinder (20 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : 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. Etat : 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.…

Etat : 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.…

paperback. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. paperback, pictorial card covers, a very good tightly bound copy with clean and unmarked contents, 140pp, lilustrated.

hardcover. Etat : Good. Includes dust jacket. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear. Pages lightly tanned. Secondhand. Very good book.

Paperback. Etat : 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.…

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : 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. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Light wear to the book, cover, edges and corners. Internally Very Good - clean and tidy copy in tight binding, A Very Good personal copy. Unclipped dust wrapper will be fitted with removable archive acetate film. **1004g ** All orders are sent with a tracking /signature service for your peace of mind, so that you can keep tabs on your parcel. For overseas customers - on some sites we use, parcels weighing over the standard rate may incur an additional charge and we will then contact you with the additional shipping fee required. This is for the postage only we do not charge you for our time or our excellent packaging, which we are noted for. Dispatched in cardboard mailers within 24/48 Hours Mon - Friday 2pm, except bank holidays, otherwise next business day - excellent service guaranteed.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 2nd Edition. Large-format HB in black cloth binding with gilt spine title, no inscriptions and unclipped DJ. A clean, tight, bright copy of 154pp.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine.

Hardback. Etat : Very Good +. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good +. 2nd Edition. 154pp, bw & col illus.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Condition Notes: Gently bruised at the head of the spine and the top corners of the boards with correspondent wear to the dust wrapper. The contents complete, clean and tight; Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 11" x 8½" (1.3 kg); pp 154; Index; Bibliography; Preface by Eric DeLony; Includes: Cross-sections; Index of names; Photographs, black-and-white and colour, within the text; Tables; Colour frontispiece; List of abbreviations; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #203982 ||.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1979 Large Soft Cover very good book, corners and edges lightly rubbed, spine edge sunned on rear cover. No inscription. 140 pages with index. Appendix of a Checklist of Iron Bridges, 1781-1830. 76 illustrations and 13 colour plates. Bibliography.…

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Not Applicable. 1st Edition. Card covers, small 4to, pp.140. Illustrated, inc colour plates. Produced for the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Pioneering cast iron bridge that epitomised the progress of the Industrial Revolution and contemporary engineering science. Some information on other early iron bridges inspired by this one, including a checklist of other similar ones built between 1781 and 1830. A little shelfwear else clean and sound. Near fine.…

Softcover. o.A. 140 S. Leichte Lager- und Gebrauchsspuren, innen wie außen ein sehr gutes Exemplar. Die Leseseiten sind sauber und ohne Anstreichungen oder Knicke. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Hard cover book in good+ condition with dust jacket in very good condition. Inscribed by Barrie Trinder to half-title page. Shelfwear to edges of jacket. Large gift inscription to front free endpaper. Page edges lightly tanned. 4to. 154pp.

Etat : New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back.

Hardcover. Etat : New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust & Moonraker Press. 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Large 8vo. Illustrated. Covers partially browned o/w generally a clean copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 140pp, hardcover, unclipped d/j with title in black/grey to faded yellow spine. Black and white/colour illustrated. Slight creasing to d/j edges and marks to front and rear of d/j. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.