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THE SHEFFIELD FLOOD A Report on the Failure and Bursting of a Reservoir Embankment belonging to the Sheffield Waterworks Co. on the night of Friday 11th March 1864, by...

Book Description

The Sheffield Telegraph & The Star's own library copy of the Government Report presented to Parliament on the 11th May 1864. Folio [13"x8½"] original pebble grain cloth. A superb volume comprising the Report, an Appendix and the Evidence in all over 250 pps. plus eleven folding plates No1 extending to four and a half feet. Several with hand colouring,and two tinted Lithog- raphic views of Dale Dyke Embankment after the devastation. All in excellent order and very. scarce.

Author RAWLINSON, Robert and BEARDMORE Nathaniel Civil Engineers and John Arthur Roebuck.

Binding Original publishers cloth

Publisher LONDON The House of Commons 11th May 1864.

Condition Excellent

Price: £350.00

Offered by John L Capes

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