British Canals: an Illustrated History

This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. There is a handsome bookplate to the front paste down. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. When this book was first published in 1950 The Spectator said: "An important contribution to English social history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as as a canal history is hardly likely to be superseded." In 1959 the work went into its second edition with substantial additional material, the fruits of further research. This is now the fourth edition of this comprehensive work. It remains the only full history of British canals and it deals also with the navigable rivers associated with them. The author covers the whole of the story from the early days of flash-locks and barge masters at war with the mill owners for right of passage, down to the present day (1969). It will interest not only the student of history but also the open-air enthusiast who will suspect rightly that behind the quiet towpath there lies many a romantic and dramatic story. Few changes in the text have been necessary but there is considerable increase in the number of plates. In addition to these are more than 40 prints and 15 maps, most of them especially drawn for this volume and many full-page size. Ref QQQ 8