15Vols Highways, Bridges and Aerodromes; Highways and Bridges and Engineering Works

An impressive mid-twentieth-century run of this very scarce leading British civil engineering periodical, documenting the post-war transformation of British and international road, bridge, and civil engineering through authoritative weekly reporting. Uniformly bound in blue cloth.Illustrated throughout with photographs, technical drawings, charts, and plans. Includes contemporary commercial advertisements that provide additional insight into mid-century engineering practice and materials. With the odd illustration in colour, more so to later copies.An impressive near-continuous run of this leading British civil engineering periodical, comprising numerous weekly journals bound together into fifteen volumes, covering the period from July 1946 to December 1959. Collectively, the set brings together approximately 640-650 individual journal issues, based on the published issue numbering and weekly sequence. Published under the earlier title Highways, Bridges, & Aerodromes, and later continued as Highways and Bridges and Engineering Works.Featuring technical papers, project reports, statistical analyses, photographic plates, diagrams, and extensive advertising for contemporary engineering firms, materials, and machinery. Topics covered across the run include motorway and arterial road construction, bridge design, traffic planning, aerodromes, paving materials, concrete and asphalt technology, urban transport policy, and major national and overseas engineering schemes, and more.Compromising:Volume XIII: July 3rd, 1946, No. 626 to October 15th, 1947, No. 693Volume XIV: October 22nd, 1947, No. 694 to May 19th, 1948, No. 724, with further unnumbered issues to May 26th, 1948Volume XV: June 2nd, 1948, No. 726 to May 25th, 1949, No. 777Volume XVI: June 2nd, 1949, No. 778 to July 5th, 1950, No. 835Volume XVII: July 5th, 1950, No. 835 to June 13th, 1951, No. 884 (the first issue misprinted as Volume XVI)Volume XVIII: June 29th, 1951, No. 885 to June 4th, 1952, No. 935Volume XIX: June 11th, 1952, No. 936 to June 10th, 1953, No. 987Volume XX: June 24th, 1953, No. 989 to June 2nd, 1954, No. 1038Volume XXI: June 9th, 1954, No. 1039 to September 22nd, 1954, No. 1054Volume XXII: September 29th, 1954, No. 1055 to June 1st, 1955, No. 1090Volume XXIII: June 8th, 1955, No. 1091 to June 6th, 1956, No. 1142Volume XXIV: June 13th, 1956, No. 1143 to May 29th, 1957, No. 1192Volume XXV: June 12th, 1957, No. 1194 December 18th, 1957, No. 1221Volume XXVI: January 1st, 1958, No. 1222 to December 31st, 1958, No. 1274Volume XXVII: January 7th, 1959 to December 30th, 1959 (issues unnumbered) Uniformly rebound in cloth. Externally, generally smart. Road Research Laboratory Library stamps to the front free endpapers. Some fading to the boards, most noticeable to the spines and perimeters, particularly so to the later volumes; Volume 26 notably faded, with heavier fading to spine and board edges. A few additional minor pale damp spots to the lower edges of the front board of Volume 13. Library bookplates to the front pastedowns of Volumes 19, 21, 24, 25 , and 27, with residue from partially removed bookplates to the final leaves of some issues. The front board of Volume 25 with a few marks and small areas of residue from unidentified sources. Slight damp staining to the boards of Volume 14, with occasional further small spots of damp staining across the set. Volume 21 with damp staining to the front board and some offsetting. Internally, firmly bound. Hinges slightly strained in places from weight of volumes. Library stamps and occasional annotations to the title pages of individual issues. Slight damp staining to the upper corners of issues nos. 971987 in Volume 19, resulting in mild cockling and slight adhesion to a small number of pages. Pen inscriptions to the first leaf of Volume 25. Volume 17 misprinted as Volume 16 on the first issue, with contemporary blue pencil corrections by a previous owner. One or two small closed tears to fore edges discreetly r.…