Lighthouses.- Smeaton (John) A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with Stone, second edition, engraved vignette title and 23 engraved plates & plans, foxing to title, foxing or very light browning to a few plates, occasional light finger-soiling, overall a good copy, ex-Royal College of Art with bookplate and embossed stamp to foot of title, contemporary half calf, rebacked with old spine label laid down, uncut, sticker to spine foot, corners bumped and with old repairs, covers quite worn, [Goldsmiths' 15747], large folio, T. Davison, 1813.

⁂ Smeaton's own account of his great lighthouse, completed in 1759. His tower was the third on the treacherous Eddystone reef, 14 miles off the Plymouth coast. The two earlier timber structures, by Winstanley and Rudyard, had both been destroyed. Building with masonry, Smeaton devised and ingenious method of dovetailing and interlocking the blocks of stone to ensure maximum strength, and his example was followed for later towers.