Canals.- Whitworth (Richard) The Advantages of Inland Navigation...to shew that an Inland Navigation may be easily effected between the three great Ports of Bristol, Liverpool, and Hull, first edition, presentation copy from the author to John Turton with Turton's ink inscription at head of title (and others to front free endpaper), possibly lacking half-title although conforms to ESTC copy, folding engraved portrait of the Duke of Bridgewater, 4 folding tables of furnaces & forges, manufactures & merchandizes, expenses, and landowners, large folding engraved map with routes supplied in red or green, browned and soiled, slight worming to map, engraved bookplate of John Turton of the Inner Temple, contemporary calf, rubbed and marked, rebacked preserving old morocco label, corners repaired, worming to lower corners and edges, 8vo, for R.Baldwin, 1766.

⁂ Rare work by the High Sheriff of Staffordshire 1758/9 and MP for Stafford from 1768 to 1780. The frontispiece depicts the Duke of Bridgewater against a background of canals and working barges. The Bridgewater Canal, authorised by Acts of Parliament in 1760 and 1762, was not finally completed until 1776. It was the only major English canal to be financed by a private individual.