Bridges - Design and construction - Costs - Early works to 1800

A scheme for speedily raising a sum of money sufficient to defray the expence of building a stone bridge at Black-Fryars humbly offered to the consideration of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Worshipful the Aldermen, and the Inhabitants of the City of London. With Some Observations on Mr. Whiston's Scheme, Shewing, That the Adoption thereof will be a Great Burthen to the Citizens. To which is Added, A Postscript, Containing the Proposal of a Common Council Man lately deceased, for Raising the Sum wanted, by an easy Voluntary Subscription of the Mayor, Aldermen, Clergy, Gentry, and Inhabitants of London. By a liveryman.