An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House, Including the Details of the Erection and Peculiar Structure of that Edifice
Published by Archibald Contable & Co, Edinburgh, 1824
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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Edinburgh: Archibald Contable & Co., 1824. Stevenson was chief engineer of the Scottish Lighthouse board for 50 years, and practically inaugurated the Scottish lighthouse system. (See DNB) The Bell Rock lighthouse stands with Eddystone as one of the great early structures, and this written work by Stevenson as one of the classics of lighthouse literature. Aside from being an exhaustive treatise on the construction of this difficult structure, it contains a history of lighthouses in the British Isles. The front blank has a presentation inscription to Sir James Montgomery from the "Commissioners of the Northern Light Houses." Aside from some tanning and foxing to plates this is a lovely, wide-margined copy, with pages untrimmed and partially uncut. Bound in period half morocco over boards. . 33 cm. xix, 533, (2 directions to binder) pp. plus 23 b/w engraved plates, some double page . Stevenson was chief engineer of the Scottish Lighthouse board for 50 years, and “practically inaugurated the Scottish lighthous.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House, Including the Details of the Erection and Peculiar Structure of that Edifice
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert
- Publisher
- Archibald Contable & Co, Edinburgh
- Publication year
- 1824
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First Edition.
Ten Pound Island Book Co.
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