Thames Tunnel
Sketches and Memoranda of the Works
£450
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 17 June 2020 at 11:00 BST
Description
for the Tunnel under the Thames from Rotherhithe to Wapping, Published and sold at the Tunnel Works, Rotherhithe and Messrs, Harvey and Darton. Printed by the Philanthropic Society, 1828. Oblong 12mo, 2 folding plates as frontispiece, 12 further plates, 2 folding plans, (one plate with lifting flap, one plate with colours of silt hand-coloured), original marbled boards with paper label on upper cover, slipcase with pictorial slip dated Dec. 1828, lacks lower wrapper, replaced with later wrapper that extends round onto inner margin of upper wrapper, old Gloucestershire County Library stamp to front endpaper, and their label to title verso, some spotting, chiefly to plate margins, binding and slipcase rubbed