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A Dissertation Concerning the Present State of the High Roads of England Especially of those near London. Wherein is propos'd A New Method of Repairing and Maintaining them. Read before the Royal Society the Twenty-Seventh Day of January and the Thir.
173729354London Gilliver and Clarke 1737. 8vo. Near contemporary half calf with gilt title label. 16622 pp. and 8 engraved plates 1 folding. 4cm tear to bottom of title page - proffesionally repaired with no loss. A fine clean copy. <br/><br/><em>First edition. Phillips recognized that a layer of gravel if resting on a well-drained dry sole would be beaten by the traffic into a firm road surface. He was thus the pioneer in the development of the Macadam method. The present work is described in Gregory: The Story of the Road p.207-211. Very uncommon. </em> unknown
