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Fairburn (William) C.E., AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BRITANNIA AND CONWAY TUBULAR BRIDGES, WITH A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THEIR PROGRESS, FROM THE CONCEPTION OF THE ORIGINAL IDEA, TO THE CONCLUSION OF THE ELABORATE EXPERIMENTS WHICH DETERMINED THE EXACT FORM AND MODE OF CONSTRUCTION ULTIMATELY ADOPTED, first edition, 1/2 leather, dark cloth boards, gilt embossed title to spine, later endpapers, applied bookplates for George Higgin, foldout frontispiece, inscribed "George Higgin 1859" to title page, nineteen foldout plates (numbered I to XX, number IX not present), John Weale, London 1849 (at fault)
NOTE: By repute this volume was the property of George Higgin (1833-1892), an eminent Victorian engineer who worked extensively on railways in Ireland, building viaducts over the River Main at Randalstown and over the Lower Bann at Loorne Bridge.
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