This day are published, in three volumes, quarto, price £7:7s. boards, illustrated with 74 plates, printed chiefly from his manuscripts, under the direction of a select committee of civil engineers, Reports, estimates, and treatises, embracing the several subjects of canals, navigable rivers, harbours, piers, bridges, draining, embanking, lighthouses, machinery of various descriptions including fire engines, mills, &c. &c. with other miscellaneous papers drawn up in the course of his employment as a civil engineer, by the late Mr. John Smeaton, F.R.S.

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This day are published, in three volumes, quarto, price £7:7s. boards, illustrated with 74 plates, printed chiefly from his manuscripts, under the direction of a select committee of civil engineers, Reports, estimates, and treatises, embracing the several subjects of canals, navigable rivers, harbours, piers, bridges, draining, embanking, lighthouses, machinery of various descriptions including fire engines, mills, &c. &c. with other miscellaneous papers drawn up in the course of his employment as a civil engineer, by the late Mr. John Smeaton, F.R.S, [1812]

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Title(s):: This day are published, in three volumes, quarto, price £7:7s. boards, illustrated with 74 plates, printed chiefly from his manuscripts, under the direction of a select committee of civil engineers, Reports, estimates, and treatises, embracing the several subjects of canals, navigable rivers, harbours, piers, bridges, draining, embanking, lighthouses, machinery of various descriptions including fire engines, mills, &c. &c. with other miscellaneous papers drawn up in the course of his employment as a civil engineer, by the late Mr. John Smeaton, F.R.S.
Published/Created:: London : Printed Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row, [1812]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 24 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
TA7 .S63 1812a+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12485681
Classification:: Books
Notes:: The work was published in 1812 with the title: Reports of the late John Smeaton : F.R.S., made on various occasions in the course of his employment as a civil engineer.
Volume 4 was added in 1814: The miscellaneous papers of John Smeaton ... comprising his communications to the Royal Society, printed in the Philosophical transactions, forming a fourth volume to his reports.
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Imprint from foot of page 2.
Pages [3] and [4] are blank.
Subject Terms:: Book industries and trade -- Great Britain.
Canals -- Great Britain -- Planning.
Civil engineering.
Engineering design.
Inland navigation -- Scotland.
Smeaton, John, 1724–1792. Reports of the late John Smeaton.
Form/Genre:: Prospectuses.
Contributors:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, publisher.
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