Description

The MacMillan Company, 1931. Hardcover, 311 pp. No other printings listed. In good condition/ NO dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing and soiling with most of the gold lettering scuffed off on the spine. Spine has a few thin cracks but binding is still intact. Previous owner's name in ink on front free end paper. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. With four maps and 30 black and white illustrations, including a nice frontispiece drawing by Stephen Bone. A history roads from ancient and medieval times and their evolution into the modern roads of today. Contents include: I. Ancient and Medieval Roads. The Origin of Roads : The Word - Road; Primitive Regulations for Safety First on the Road; Some Prehistoric Trade Roads: The Amber Roads of Central Europe - Lapis Lazuli - The Royal Road of Xerxes and the Silk-Trade Roads to China; Ancient British Roads; The Pioneers in Road-making - The Egyptians and Carthaginians; The Roman Road; The Roman Roads in Britain; The English Roads in the Middle Ages; The Roads of China; The Inca Roads of Peru; II. The Evolution of the Modern Road: The Principles of Road Construction; Road Materials; The Evolution of Vehicles and Their Influence on the Road; The Political Evolution of the Road; British Roads in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: General Wade's Roads; The Development of the Modern Road : Telford's Roads in Scotland : Macadam; The Modern Motor Road - and some of its problems: The Problems of Dust, Road Waviness and Slipperiness; Some Foreign Roads : Napoleon's Alpine Roads : The Roads of France, Germany and Italy: The Roads of the United States : Roads in India; The Future of the Road.