A description of the River Thames : &c. with the City of London's jurisdiction and conservacy thereof proved, Both in Point of Right and Usage, by Prescription, Charters, Acts of Parliament, Decrees, upon Hearing before the King, Letters Patents, &c. &c. To which is added, a brief description of those fish, with their Seasons, Spawning-Times, &c. that are caught in the Thames, or sold in London. with Some few Observations on the Nature, Element, Cloathing, Numbers, Passage, Wars, and Sensation, &c, peculiar to Fish in general. and, also, Of the Water-Carriage on the River Thames, to the several Parts of the Kingdom; with a List of the Keys, Wharfs, and Docks, adjoining to the same. To which are added, rules, orders, and ordinances, made in Pursuance of an Act of Parliament passed in the 30th of Geo. II. For the more effectual Preservation and Improvement of the Spawn and Fry of Fish, and for the better Regulating the Fishery thereof.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffiths, Roger.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

Essay to prove that the jurisdiction and conservacy of the River of Thames

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fishes--England.

Fishes.

Thames River (England).

England.

Physical Description:

xvi pages, 4 unnumbered pages,269 pages, 1 unnumbered page;23 pages, 1 unnumbered page;1 unnumbered page,272-296 pages,plates ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for T. Longman in Pater-Noster-Row, 1758.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Anonymous. By Roger Griffiths.

Editor's dedication signed: Robert Binnell.

P.iv misnumbered ii.

'Dickinson, Mayor. Rules, orders, and ordinances' has separate pagination and register and is inserted after p. 269.

The two unnumbered leaves after p.xvi contain a list of contents and an errata.

The catchword on the verso of the contents leaf is "errata", a variant has the catchword on verso of contents leaf: "The".

First published in 1746 as 'An essay to prove that the jurisdiction and conservacy of the River of Thames, &c. is committed to the Lord Mayor, .. '.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T137301.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.