The Story Of John Smeaton And The Eddystone Lighthouse.
£75.00
Publisher
T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row.
Place
London
Date
1893
Synopsis
Based on samuel smiles, lives of the engineers, vol. ii; smeaton and lighthouses (1844); les phares; lighthouses and lightships, by w. h. davenport adams and smeaton's own account of the eddystone lighthouse.
Item Description
8vo. 6.75 x 4.75 inches. 117 pp. Bound in red morocco, boards with gilt decorative borders; spine in compartment with raised bands decorated gilt, with contrasting black title label, gilt. all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Inner dentelles. Binder's stamp, Allman and Son. Ltd.. London. Minor wear to corners and spine; otherwise a fine clean copy. 1902 prize inscription on second free endpaper. Illustrated by engraved frontispiece and by text figure. Decorated by initials. Account of the career of the eighteenth century civil engineer, John Smeaton, F.R.S. (1724-92), who built bridges, harbours, canals and the third Eddystone Lighthouse (1755-59). An attractively bound presentation volume.
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