1837-46 The Civil Engineer and Architects Journal

Description

First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

Twenty-seven issues of The Civil Engineer and Architects Journal (of the Arts, Sciences, Public Works, Railways, Steam Navigation, Mining and Machinery).

Bound in the publisher's original wraps. 

Published at the Office of the Civil Engineer and Architects Journal, London.

In October 1837, surveyor and author William Laxton founded the monthly periodical 'The Civil Engineer and Architects Journal'. This was filled with relative information to the architectural and engineering worlds, with articles on railways, engines, prominent buildings, Cathedrals, including illustrations of important establishments, such as Bristol's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the National Bank of Glasgow. 

This collection is comprised of:

Nos. 1, 2, & 3. December, 1837.

No. 52. January, 1842. Illustrated with one plate.

No. 53. February, 1842.

No. 54. March, 1842. Illustrated with one plate.

No. 55. April, 1842. Illustrated with one plate.

No. 56. May, 1842. Illustrated with one plate.

No. 57. June, 1842. Illustrated with one plate.

No. 58. July, 1842. Illustrated with three plates.

No. 59. August, 1842. Illustrated with one plate.

No. 60. September, 1842.

No. 61. October, 1842.

Part 88. January, 1845. Illustrated with three plates, one of which is folding.

Part 89. February, 1845. Illustrated with one plate.

Part 90. March, 1845. Illustrated with three plates.

Part 91. April, 1845. Illustrated with three plates.

Part 93. June, 1845. Illustrated with four plates.

Part 94. July, 1845. Illustrated with one plate.

Part 95. August, 1845. Illustrated with one plate, lacking plate XIX.

Part 96. September, 1845.

Part 97. October, 1845. Illustrated with one plate.

Part 98. November, 1845. Illustrated with one folding plate.

Part 99. December, 1845.

Part 100. January, 1846. Illustrated with two plates.

No. 101. February, 1846. Illustrated with one plate, which is detached.

Part 102. March, 1846. Illustrated with one plate.

Part 103. April, 1846. Illustrated with one plate.

Part 104. May, 1846. Illustrated with one plate.

With many other vignette illustrations throughout.

Collated, with all plates accounted for in contents, apart from Plate XIX in Part 95.

With an ink inscription of F. Peabody to the front of each volume.

With an additional folding plate of the National Bank of Scotland, Glasgow, backed in cloth.