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FULTON, Robert (1765--1815)
A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation; exhibiting the numerous advantages to be derived from small canals. ... With a description of the machinery for facilitating conveyance by water through the most mountainous countries, independent of locks and aqueducts: including observations of the great importance of water communications, with thoughts on, and designs for, aqueducts and bridges of iron and wood. ... By R. Fulton, civil engineer.
London (Place), published by I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library,, 1796.
xvi, 144 p., 17 pl.; 26.5cm. (4°)

ESTC t101123. Another edition (ESTC n65694) has 143, [1] p. and a frontispiece portrait.

Copy Notes Without the final advertisement leaf recorded in ESTC.

Binding C19th diced calf, gilt roll-tooled borders, gilt-ruled spine, black spine-label. Bound by Edwin Hutchinson for 4s. 10d., 7 May 1829. (Archive 7/10/18).

Reference Number 4130

Additional Names Hutchinson, Edwin


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