Letterpress, engraving and manuscript letter relating to rolling carts and wagons

Made:
1772-1869
maker:
Dent
Letterpress, engraving and manuscript letter relating to rolling carts and wagons Letterpress, engraving and manuscript letter relating to rolling carts and wagons Letterpress, engraving and manuscript letter relating to rolling carts and wagons

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Engraving. Rolling carts and Waggons for amendment and preservation of roads on the plan recommended by Mr Dan Bourn in his ingenious treatise on wheel carriages with some improvements of the construction as built by James Sharp of Leadenhall Street, London. 1772. Drawn and engraved by Dent, Lombard Street [London]. Two plate marks. /1. Top plate has a waggon and eight. /2. Bottom plate has set of scaled elevations and plans of a cart and a waggon. 28x35.5cm. Letterpress printed Description of rolling carts and waggons as built by James Sharp, Leadenhall Street. 26x22cm. /3. Manuscript letter from WC Trevelyan in Wallington, [Northumberland] outlining the origins of Sharp and his rolling waggons, dated 18 December 1869.

Details

Category:
Art
Object Number:
1998-712
type:
print and engraving
credit:
Unknown source