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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 depending the road funds from misapplication. 
Fifth Edition, Carefully Revised with Considerable Additions, and an Appendix.
By John Loudon McAdam, Esq., General Surveyor of the Roads in the Bristol District.
LONDON: Printed for Longman, Hurst Ress, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row. 1822.

Original paper boards and spine with original paper label. Pages uncut.
96 pages.

The first two editions of 1816 and 1819 of 32 and 47 pages respectively were published in Bristol. The third edition and first London edition of 1820 was expanded to 96 pages and included a report on the Highways of the Kingdom.

In good original condition with only moderate scuffing to boards, slight splitting to spine edge with slight loss to spine and label. Ink ownership signature to front board dated 1822. Contents clean. Scarce.