Design for Improving the Harbour of Bristol, by W.m Jessop Civil Engineer W. White Surveyor.
Engraved by W. Faden. Charing Cross 1803. Engraving. Sheet: 450 x 1070mm (17¾ x 42''). Trimmed, time stained with folds as normal. A proposed design for the harbour at Bristol, but also including a quite detailed plan of the city. William Jessop (1745-1814), had been Chief Engineer to the Grand Junction Canal Company (1793), the West India Docks (1800-2) and the Surrey Iron Railway (a tramway, 1801-3.). In Scotland he helped Thomas Telford survey the Caledonian Canal and was engineer to the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway (1807-12), the first railway in Scotland authorised by Act of Parliament.
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