Practical Suggestions for Relieving the Over-Crowded Thoroughfares of London; Securing Improved Means of Locomotion; Diverting the Sewage from the Thames, and Appropriating it to Agricultural Use; with Estimate of Cost and Probable Revenue; also Maps, Plans, and Views.

Mitchell, Joseph

Published by Edward Stanford, 1857

About this Item

Octavo. 26pp plus folding map to rear. Original paper wrapps. Wear to extremities with some minor damage to head and tail of spine. Contents just starting to come away from the covers at the spine. Price of 'Half-a-Crown' given at foot of front cover. Illustrated with 4 lithograph plates (2 folding) and map at rear. Folding map showing London and the proposed 'New Street and Railway' and 'Mr. Frank Foster's Lower Intercepting Sewer'. Sporadic light spotting. Otherwise a 'Very Good' copy. This report was produced as a result of a series of parliamentary committees concerned with over-crowding in London. Mitchell proposed a single grand street running from Kensington Palace to the East End. Alongside this street would be a railway with a branch from Lincoln¿s Inn Fields to Waterloo. Another part of the scheme involved the pressing problem of sewage disposal, Mitchell argued the case for an intercepting sewer running beneath his great street and adjacent railway. Scarce.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practical Suggestions for Relieving the Over-Crowded Thoroughfares of London; Securing Improved Means of Locomotion; Diverting the Sewage from the Thames, and Appropriating it to Agricultural Use; with Estimate of Cost and Probable Revenue; also Maps, Plans, and Views.
• Publisher: Edward Stanford
• Publication Date: 1857
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Industrial History-Archaeology
  • Railways & Transport