Lot 213
Clark, Edwin
The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
With General Inquiries on Beams and on the Properties of Materials used in Construction. With the Sanction and under the Immediate Supervision of Robert Stephenson. London: for the author by Day and Son, and John Weale, 1850. First edition, 2 text volumes, octavo, and plate volume, large folio (54.5 x 36cm), text volumes with 18 engraved or lithographic plates, atlas volume with 46 lithographic plates of which 6 tinted and several folding, text volumes recased, inner hinges cracked with webbing visible, atlas volume rebacked, a few plates with marginal nicks, list of plates and final plate with repaired tears, title-page and several plates consolidated or extended at lower fore corners, plate 16 consolidated along bottom edge
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Footnote
Inscribed ‘Wm Hammond Walker, presented by the author, August 1865’ on the front free endpaper of volume one. William Hammond Walker is recorded as the owner of the Matilda, an iron screw steamer built in 1864 by Henderson, Colbourn & Co. of Renfrew, and is credited with an 1861 patent for a hydraulic stage for raising vessels.