BRIDGING THE EASTERN CAPE - The Life and Work of Joseph Newey

Faux blue leather with title in gilt to the spine. 134 pages which includes both black & white and colour photographs, portraits, water colour paintings, maps, illustrations and construction drawings. Pictorial dust jacket. Signed by author on title page. A very good copy.

This book provides a detailed account of all the stone arch bridges and most of the iron lattice girder bridges built during the second half of the nineteenth century in the eastern half of the Cape Province and is packed with information and facts about a remarkable and little known English Civil Engineer and his amazing legacy.