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Dickinson, H W.
Robert Fulton Engineer and Artist: His Life and Works.
Publisher: John Lane, the Bodley Head, London;
Date of Publication: 1913
Stock Code: 6695
FIRST EDITION with letter. Large octavo, pp xiv, [2], 333, [3], 16 catalogue. Numerous plates including frontispiece portrait of Fulton with tissue-guard, plus figures within text. Publishers’ blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, and gilt ship motif in border to upper board. Top edge gilt. Spine sunned with wear at head; upper board slightly damp-stained, and bruised to edge. Association copy: letter from W W C Frith, the Harbourmaster at South Shields, referring to his loan of the book and his enjoyment in reading it, tipped-in to ffep, and the associated reply tipped-in to front pastedown, both dated 1946. Contents clean. A Good copy. Biography of the American engineer and inventor (1765-1815) widely credited with the development of the steamboat. £35.00