Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Pocock, George
Title:
The aeropleustic art, or, Navigation in the air : by the use of kites, or buoyant sails.
Alternate Title(s):
Aeropleustic art
Published / Created:
[London : Sherwood & Co., 1827]
Physical Description:
[2], 51, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
TL759 .P63 1827+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Discusses the use of kites as auxiliary sails for ships, in the army for observation purposes, and with a "Char-Voland", or carriage drawn by kite power.

Dedication dated at Bristol, 1 May, 1827 and signed: George Pocock.

Aquatints by P. Roberts; after Thomas Buttersworth and Samuel Colman. Title page engraved by A. Adlard.

Imprint information from plates.

Printed by W. Wilson, printer, 57 Skinner-street, London.

Later published as A treatise on the aeropleustic art, 1851.

British Museum. General catalogue of printed books to 1955 (compact edition), v. 20, 767

BAC: British Art Center copy in brown paper boards with printed title label on front cover.
Subject Terms:
Kites. | Aeronautics -- History. | Sherwood & Co. -- Publisher. | Wilson, W. -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1827.
Contributors:
Roberts, P., fl. 1795–1828, engraver. | Adlard, Alfred, engraver. | Buttersworth, Thomas, 1768–1842, ill. | Colman, Samuel, 1780–1845, ill.