[Inscribed pamphlet.] The Society of Engineers. Inaugural Address of the President, Arthur Thomas Walmisley, Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers; Fellow of King's College, London. Delivered at the Town Hall, Westminster, 6th February, 1888.

8vo, 40 pp. In original grey printed wraps. Unopened. Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, with slight wear to wraps and negligible worming to margins. Presentation copy from the author. At head of front cover: 'With the Author's compliments.' According to Walmisley (p.3), the Society was 'originally started in the year 1854, as the Putney Club, formed out of the former students of the "College for Civil Engineers and of General Scientific and Practical Education," which had been established at Gordon House, Kentish Town, about the year 1839, but was removed to Putney a short time after this date'. Excessively scarce: no copy in the British Library, on COPAC or WorldCat.