Main entry:

Pope, Thomas (Architect and landscape gardener), author.

Title & Author:

A treatise on bridge architecture; : in which the superior advantages of the flying pendent lever bridge are fully proved. : With an historical account and description of different bridges erected in various parts of the world, from an early period, down to the present times. / By Thomas Pope, architect and landscape gardener.

Publication:

New-York: : Printed for the author, by Alexander Niven, no. 120 Duane-Street., 1811.

Description:

19 unnumbered pages, x-xxxii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 34-288 pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm (8vo)

Notes:
Collation: 8vo: [1]⁴ [chi]⁴ 2[chi]1 2-36⁴ [$1 signed]; 149 leaves, pages [i-viii] [10 unnumbered] [ix] x-xxxii [33] 34-246 [247] 248-279 [280-281 (280 blank)] 282-288] + 18 leaves of plates (most with numbering which was not followed, given here in parentheses): frontispiece, and facing pages 33, 40, 45 (10), 49 (9), 60 (7), 75 (13), 92, (14), 112, (8), 138 (11), 197 (1), 203, 213 (2), 216 (4), 220 (5), 226 (6), 240 (3), and 281. The frontispiece is the same as the plate facing page 203, and the same small plate faces pages 33 and 281.
Plates engraved after Pope's designs by Charles Rollinson, except the frontispiece/page 203 and plate facing page 112, engraved by W.S. Leney, and the plates facing pages 60 and 33/281, unsigned.
"Conclusion"--Pages 281-288; in verse, 1st line "Let the broad arc the spacious Hudson stride."
"Subscribers, in New-York, to T. Pope's Treatise on bridge architecture."--Preliminary pages 9-16.
"Errors occasioned by the carelessless of the printer."--Preliminary page 18.
Shaw & Shoemaker 23721
Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2658
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Subject:

Bridges.
Bridges History.
Bridges Design and construction.
Cantilever bridges Design and construction.
Bridges Poetry.
Ponts.
Ponts Histoire.
Ponts Conception et construction.
Ponts Poésie.
bridges (built works)

Form/genre:

Subscription lists.
History.
Poetry.
Engravings.
Etchings.
Subscribers' lists New York 19th century.
Subscription lists (Publishing) New York (State) 19th century.
Subscription lists (Publishing)

Added entries:

Rollinson, Charles, approximately 1793-1833, engraver.
Leney, William Satchwell, 1769-1831, engraver.
Niven, Alexander, printer.
Let the broad arc the spacious Hudson stride.
United States New York (State) New York.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 39194
Call No.: 2829; ID:88-B9944
Status: Available