Remarks on the present system of road making : with observations, deduced from practice and experience, with a view to a revision of the existing laws, and the introduction of improvement in the method of making, repairing, and preserving roads, and defending the road funds from misapplication .... / by John Loudon M'Adam ...,

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Creator:: McAdam, John Loudon, 1756–1836
Title(s):: Remarks on the present system of road making : with observations, deduced from practice and experience, with a view to a revision of the existing laws, and the introduction of improvement in the method of making, repairing, and preserving roads, and defending the road funds from misapplication .... / by John Loudon M'Adam ...,
Additional Title(s):: Remarks on roads
M'Adam on roads
Edition:: Third edition : carefully revised, with considerable additions, and an appendix.
Published/Created:: London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,Paternoster Row, 1820..
Physical Description:: 196 p. ; 24 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
TE342 M3 1820
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3786657
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Caption title: "Remarks on roads."
Spine label: "M'Adam on roads."
Includes bibliographical references.
Appendix includes "Extracts from Observations on the highways of the kingdom ... presented to a committee of the House of Commons, and printed by order of the House, 14th June, 1811" (cf. Goldsmiths' lib. #21568); and a report to the Board of Agriculture, undated but after January 1820 (internal evidence): p. [33]-57.
First published Bristol, 1816; cf. Kress Lib. #B.6739, Goldsmiths'-Kress lib. #21568; RLIN.
BAC: In original gray paste boards, as issued.
Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, 22938
Subject Terms:: Roads -- Design and construction.
Roads -- Great Britain -- Finance.
Roads -- Great Britain.
Roads, Macadamized.
Contributors:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, publisher.
McAdam, John Loudon, 1756–1836. Observations on the highways of the kingdom. Selections.
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Introduction
The mode of making roads
Commissioners and officers employed under them
Care of the finances
Appendix
Report from the select committee on the highways of the kingdom ...
Minutes of evidence.

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