Rudimentary treatise on the drainage of towns and buildings: : suggestive of sanatory regulations that would conduce to the health of an increasing population. / By G. Drysdale Dempsey, C.E. author of "The practial railway engineer" and of the "Rudimentary treatise on the drainage of districts and lands."

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dempsey, G. Drysdale (George Drysdale), -1859.

Contributor:

Carpenters' Company Library Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

George Woodfall and Son., Printer.

Weale, John, 1791-1862, Publisher.

Series:

Weale's rudimentary series ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drainage.

Buildings--Health aspects.

Sanitary engineering.

Sewerage--England--London.

Sanitation.

Genre:

Publishers' catalogs.

Physical Description:

[4], 176 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

London: : John Weale, Architectural Library, 59 High Holborn,, M.DCCC.XLIX. [1849]

Notes:

Publisher's catalog on 12 p. at end.

Variant issue? This work does not have preliminary pagination in Roman numerals or any evidence of a folded plate as in other copies reported.

With a half-title.

"London: George Woodfall and Son, Angel Court, Skinner Street."--verso of half-t.p.

Local Notes:

Title is held at Carpenters' Hall in the Library of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. Access to the books is restricted and available to researchers only by permission requested in advance.

Carpenters' Company copy has accession number 2288; first recorded in 1857 Carpenters' Company Library inventory as no. 143 and in the 1958 Carpenters' Company Library Catalogue as no. 1130.

OCLC:

232663510