Thomas Codrington (1829-1918)
Much as I would love to provide an outline of Codrington's life and background to give his work some context, I must confess a certain amount of ignorance. However, what I do know is here (I have also added this information to the Wikipedia, for more general consumption):
Thomas Codrington was an engineer in late Victorian Britain. Codrington had a career background as an Inspector for local government, during which time he published several known works. His first work was "Report on the Destruction of Town Refuse", published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office in 1888. This was only a pamphlet of 48 pages, including illustrations of furnaces in use at the time. He then went on to write the slightly more substantial 172 page work "The Maintenance of Macadamised Roads" in 1879, published by E. & F.N. Spon.
However, by far Codrington's most famous work was also one of his last. Roman roads in Britain, published originally in 1903, was the first attempt by any author to catalogue fully the evident remains of the Roman transport network in the United Kingdom. Several further editions were subsequently published, and indeed reprinted. The last of these (as far as I'm currently aware) was a reprint of the 3rd edition in 1928.
The edition presented here is a reprint of the 3rd edition from 1919 (the first impression was during the First World War).