A view of the advantages of inland navigations : with a plan of a navigable canal, Intended for a Communication between the ports of Liverpool and Hull.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bentley, Thomas, 1731-1780.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canals--Great Britain.

Canals.

Inland navigation--Great Britain.

Inland navigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],40p.,plate ) map ;

Other Title:

View of the advantages of inland navigations

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Becket and de Hondt, in the Strand; Johnson and Davenport, in Pater-Noster-Row; Parsons and Smith, in Newcastle under Lyne; and J. Gore, in Liverpool, 1765.

Notes:

Anonymous. By Thomas Bentley (Des Fontanes, J.: 'Josiah Wedgwood: the arts and sciences united', London, 1978, pp. 9-10).

With a dedication.

P. 15 of 'Facts and reasons tending to shew, that the proposed canal, from the Trent to the Mersey, ought not to terminate at Northwich and Burton', the 16pp. edition, [1766], states that of 'A view of the advantages of inland navigations' "above 1000 copies were sold and distributed".

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Higgs, 3544

Goldsmiths', 10129

English Short Title Catalog, T79503.

OCLC:

642701789