Bridges    Fritz Leonhardt   Architectural Press   ISBN 0 85139 764 6

     1982 – This excellent book, by an eminent bridge-builder, discusses many aspects

     of design, including the appearance, as well as the technical aspects, of bridges.

The Creation of Bridges    David Bennett    Aurum    ISBN 1 85410 651 1

     1999 – Well presented book with superb photographs, and sections on history,

     structural principles, and individual bridges and engineers.

Bridges   D J Brown   Michael Beazley   ISBN 1 85732 163 4

     1993 – Covers both engineers and their creations in detail, as well as principles.

Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America  

     Henry Petroski  Alfred A Knopf     Review of Henry Petroski –

     http://www.amsci.org/AMSCI/bookshelf/Leads96/Petroski96-07.html

Modern British Bridges   D Henry and J A Jerome   C R Books

     1965 – Technical information, structural drawings and photographs of bridges built

     in the 1950s and 1960s.

Developments in Structural Form   R J Mainstone   Allen Lane / Penguin

     ISBN 0 14 00 6503 2 paperback   0 71 39 0333 3 hardback

     1975 – Wide ranging, non-mathematical treatment of many types of architectural 

     and engineering structures with many diagrams and photographs.

A Span of Bridges  H J Hopkins   David and Charles

     Good on history, people and structures.

The World’s Great Bridges  H Shirley-Smith   Phoenix, London,  

     and  Harper and Row,  NY   An excellent book in many ways.

Bridges and Their Builders   D B Steinman and S R Watson   

     1941   G P Putnam’s Sons, NY    1957    Dover

     This book is a very good source for the history of bridge building and bridge

     builders, as well as on the technical aspects of the subject.    

Bridges of Britain  Geoffrey N Wright  D Bradford Barton Ltd

     1973 – Monochrome photographs of bridges of all ages, with informative notes

     about history and construction.  A very good source for old bridges.

The Guinness Book of Structures  John H Stephens  Guinness Superlatives Ltd  

     ISBN 0 900424 28 1 – Much more than a list of data, it provides many insights.

Structures: Or why things don’t fall down  J E Gordon    Pelican

     Entertainingly written, technically informative, excellent value.

The New Science of Strong Materials: or why you don’t fall through the floor  

     J E Gordon   Pelican

     Entertainingly written, technically informative, excellent value.

Building Structures  Malcolm Millais  E and FN Spon (Chapman and Hall) 

     ISBN 0 419 21970 6 -1997 – Structural principles clearly explained using a large

     number of drawings and no mathematics.

Fundamental Structural Analysis  W J Spencer  Macmillan Education  

     ISBN 0 333 43467 6 – Mathematical treatment of structures – complementary to

     the book by Millais.

The Builders   National Geographic Society   ISBN 0-87044-836-6    

     1992 – Superb photographs of bridges, buildings, dams and other structures.

List of books

Books

Review of Henry Petroski

Calatrava bridges

Calatrava books

Bridge engineering handbook

Severn bridges books by Chris Witts 

A Century of Bridges – Sketches, grid references and historical notes about every bridge over the river Severn, by someone who has known the river for many years.

Along the Severn from Source to Sea – Fascinating historical and geographical notes about the river Severn and its towns.