Reports, With Plans, Sections, &c. Of The Proposed Dry Tunnel, Or Passage, From Gravesend, in Kent, to Tilbury, in Essex; Demonstrating Its Practicability, And Great Importance to The Two Counties, And To The Nation At Large: Also On A Canal From Near Gravesend To Stroud. With Some Miscellaneous And Practical Observations. By R. Dodd, Engineer. Illustrated With Plates.
London:: Printed For J. Taylor, At The Architectural Library, High Holborn., 1798.
Physical Description
viii, [ii], 28, [2] p., 3 pl. (2 dble.); 262 mm. (Quarto).
Contents
[T.p.] - Preface - [Plates] - Explanation Of The Plates - Reports, &c. &c. - Additional Improvement - [Advertisement].
Responsibility Note
The first two plates are signed as drawn by R. Dodd and engraved by J. Raffield [is this the same as the architect John Raffield (fl. 1770-1825)?]. The third plate (a map) is unsigned.
Each plate carries the imprint of J. Taylor and the date, Sep. 1. 1798.
References
RIBA, Early printed books, 5 (2003), no.3822, p.2572-3; A.W. Skempton, British civil engineering 1640-1840: a bibliography (1987), 379. The triumphant bore: a celebration of Marc Brunel's Thames tunnel, ed. M. Chrimes [exhibition catalogue] (London, Institution of Civil Engineers, 1993).
ESTC, T111066
Summary Note
The text includes A Report and Estimate, on the projected Dry Tunnel, or Subterraneous Passage, under the River Tyne, to communicate with the Towns of North and South Shields (p. 17-22).
The plates show: 1. a plan and vertical and horizontal sections of the proposed tunnel from Gravesend to Tilbury; 2. a view of Gravesend and Tilbury indicating the situation of the proposed tunnel, and a section of the river in the line of the tunnel; 3. a map indicating the roads and principal towns within the immediate influence of the tunnel and of the canal.
Provenance
Acquired between 1798 and 1802. Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Copy Note
Imperfect: lacks the advertisement leaf.
Binding Note
20th-century brown half morocco, brown cloth-covered boards; gilt-decorated spine, lettered 'Tracts' and 'R.A.'. Bound with 7 others
Subject
Tunnels - Canals - Engineering - Transportation - Great Britain - Kent - Essex - History - 18th century
Plans - Sections - Great Britain - 18th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century