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Taylor, Thomas John.
An Inquiry into the Operation of Running Streams and Tidal Waters, with a View to Determine Their Principles of Action; and an Application of Those Principles to the Improvement of the River Tyne [Presentation copy presented to the Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne].
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans; M. & M. W. Lambert, Printers, Grey Street and Sandhill., London; Newcastle;
Date of Publication: 1851
Stock Code: 11630
First edition. Tall octavo, pp., viii, 119, [1]. Complete with 9 coloured plates containing 37 courses, and an additional two large coloured folding maps to rear. Bound in the original publisher’s blue cloth with paper spine label; citron end-papers. Presented to Joseph Lamb (i.e. Mayor of Newcastle) with inscription to title-page ‘Joseph Lamb, Esq // With the author’s compts.’ Cloth lightly rubbed to corners and spine-tips, with a small non-structural tear to cloth of upper spine-tip. Contents clean and bright. A very good copy. Thomas John Taylor (1810-1861) was an eminent engineer, serving as mining engineer of the Duke of Northumberland and writing extensively on mining and the coal trade. This treatise advances informed suggestions for the improvement of the river Tyne, being a great shipping port for coal, and gives his views on the improvement and management of rivers and tidal harbours generally. With attractive folding maps illustrating “Map reduced from Rennie's plan and soundings of 1813 Bill Point to Jarrow Slake”, and “The Tyne from Willington Quay to the outfall shewing the improvement lines contemplated to be carried out together with the proposed piers at the mouth of the river.” An excellent copy. £400.00