The Romance of Modern Engineering. Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non-Technical Language of the Nile Dam, the Panama Canal, the Tower Bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Niagara Falls Power Co., Bermuda Floating Dock, etc. etc. By Archibald Williams. With Many Illustrations. Second Edition. London; C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd.; 1904.
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Bound by Bickers & Son, Leicester SQR.
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Provenance:
Gilt crest and bookplate of the Cathedral Church of Rochester School. Gilt crest contains the inscription 'schola recalis ecclesiae cathedralis roffensis' (School of the Cathedral Church of Rochester). Also, the prize bookplate is for the summer examination of 1905.
The Cathedral Church of Rochester School is now called the King's School, Rochester. The school is the second oldest school in the world, and the oldest choir school. The school's website states the school's origins: "The name of ‘King’s School’ dates from the Reformation, when, in 1542, King Henry VIII reconstituted the Cathedral Foundation after the dissolution of the Monastery, although there has been a school on the Cathedral site since 604 AD. King Henry appointed a Dean and Chapter, a full choral establishment and ‘twenty scholars to be taught Grammar’, together with a Headmaster and Undermaster of the Cathedral Grammar School...".
Size: 140 x 200 x 40 mm (approx.)
Condition:
Spines with very minor scuffing and superficial scratches. Tooled labels present with very minor scratches. All boards securely attached with minor wear to joints and hinges. Boards with some uneven sunning, very minor scuffing, superficial scratches, and marks. Very minor shelf and edge wear. Dulling to page edges. Bookplate attached to front pastedown. Binder's stamp on the reverso of ffep. Endpapers with very minor foxing. Title page with light toning and minor foxing. Text block very clean with toning around edges and sporadic very minor foxing. Uncollated.
