Account of the Skerryvore lighthouse : with notes of the illumination of lighthouses / by Alan Stevenson, LL. B., F.R.S.E., M.I.C.E., engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board.

Main entry:

Stevenson, Alan, 1807-1865, author.

Title & Author:

Account of the Skerryvore lighthouse : with notes of the illumination of lighthouses / by Alan Stevenson, LL. B., F.R.S.E., M.I.C.E., engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board.

Publication:

Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, North Bridge ; London : Longman and Co., MDCCCXLVIII [1848]

Description:

x pages, 2 leaves, 1 unnumbered page, pages 9-439, 1 unnumbered page, XXXIII leaves of plates (including frontispiece; 2 folded) : illustrations ; 33 x 26 cm

Notes:
"By order of the Commissioners of northern lighthouses."
Errata precedes text.
Side notes.
Emblem of the Northern Lighthouses with motto "In salutem omnium," on title page.
Includes bibliographical references.
Goldsmith's-Kress, no. 35819

Resources:
Connect online to the Making of the Modern World (The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)

Subject:

Skerryvore Lighthouse (Hebrides, Scotland)
Lighthouses Lighting.
Lighthouses Design and construction.
Lighthouses Lighting Scotland Hebrides.
Scotland Hebrides
Nineteenth century

Form/genre:

Binders' tickets (Binding) Banks, Jr. CtY-BR
Aquatints 1848.
Wood engravings 1848.
Engravings 1848.

Added entries:

Great Britain Scotland Edinburgh.
Great Britain England London.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 15873
Call No.: ID:87-B15961
Status: Available

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