Buy this book on-line HOUSEHOLD, HUMPHREY: : The Thames & Severn CanalUK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES,1969. ISBN 0715344757.
UK,slim 8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.[The 4th of 5 (so far - then 1969) published titles from the series 'Inland Waterways Histories' under the editorship of Charles Hadfield.One of the earliest of titles from the series and therefore quite scarce] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial scenic artwork illustrated front panel+spine of dw/dj,with white lettering,rear panel with publisher's b/w advert; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,publisher's original plain pale green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn,5-237pp [paginated] includes separate contents and illustrations lists/tables,a foreword by Charles Hadfield (series Editor),11 chapters,a mixture of contemporary b/w photographs,maps and diagrams interspersed throughout the text and the book,author's notes+acknowledgements,notes, appendices (1-7) and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title,colour pictorial illustrated frntis (repeated from dw/dj),title page and 2p blanks at the rear of the book.
The Thames & Severn Canal ran from near Letchlade on the upper Thames to Stroud,whence the Stroudwater Navigation and the Gloucester & Berkeley Canal linked it to the Severn at Gloucester,Framilode and Sharpness.
Climbing from Stroud up the Golden Valley, passing through Sapperton tunnel,nearly 2.25 miles long and,when it was opened,the longest canal tunnel in the world,then running across the high Cotswolds to Sapperton and Cirencester, and so falling gently into the upper Thames valley,the Thames & Severn was a waterway of great engineering and operational interest.Its life span was from 1783 to 1933 and its remains give pleasure to the many who explore them today (then 1969).
Some twenty years of research has produced a thorough,well-written and unusually wide-ranging study of a waterway of perennial interest to transport historians,industrial archaeologists and canal enthusiasts.
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