拍品 65
65
[THE GREAT EASTERN] Some Account of the Largest Steam Ship in the World belonging to the Eastern Steam Navigation Company, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Esq., Ship and Paddle Engines building by Messrs. John Scott, Russell, & Co, at Millwall, Poplar, and the Screw Engines by Messrs. James Watt & Co., at Birmingham, [London], 1855, 8°, 24pp., PRESENTATION COPY, title inscribed: "Mr. Scott Russell with the compiler's best compliments," contemporary blue morocco gilt, gilt floral border and central arabesque, flat-backed spine (extremities rubbed), g.e., Scott bookplate. [Scott 707]

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[THE GREAT EASTERN] Some Account of the Largest Steam Ship in the World belonging to the Eastern Steam Navigation Company, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Esq., Ship and Paddle Engines building by Messrs. John Scott, Russell, & Co, at Millwall, Poplar, and the Screw Engines by Messrs. James Watt & Co., at Birmingham, [London], 1855, 8°, 24pp., PRESENTATION COPY, title inscribed: "Mr. Scott Russell with the compiler's best compliments," contemporary blue morocco gilt, gilt floral border and central arabesque, flat-backed spine (extremities rubbed), g.e., Scott bookplate. [Scott 707]

拍品专文

The dedication to Napoleon III is signed by John Yates, Secretary to the Company, the probable compiler of this pamphlet which was published during the second year of construction. Work on the "Great Eastern" continued until 1857; and the ship was finally launched after extraordinary difficulties on January 31, 1858.