The advancement of arts, manufactures, and commerce; : or, Descriptions of the useful machines and models contained in the repository of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce: illustrated by designs on fifty-five copper-plates. Together with an account of the several discoveries and improvements promoted by the society, in agriculture, mechanics, chemistry, and the polite arts; and also in the British colonies in America. /
Bailey, William,active 1770.
Scott, James,-approximately 1786,binder.StEdNL: Bdg.l.27
Scott, John,1830-1903,former owner.StEdNL: Bdg.l.27
Fougeron, Ignace,active 18th/19th century,engraver.
Müller, Tobias,active 1744-1790,engraver.
Vitalba, Giovanni,1738-1792,engraver.
Caldwall, James,1739-1819,engraver.
Bailey, A. M.(Alexander Mabyn),ill.
Bailey, William,active 1770,ill.
Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain).
Institution of Naval Architects,former owner.StEdNL: Bdg.l.27
London: : Printed by William Adlard, printer to the Society: and sold by the author; also by R. Dodsley, bookseller, in Pall-Mall; and G. Pearch, bookseller, in Cheapside.,
MDCCLXXII. [1772]
A second volume, corrected and revised, was published in 1779.
With a list of subscribers.
With engravings by I. Fougeron, T. Miller, John Vitalba, and J. Caldwall, after A.M. Bailey and William Bailey.
ESTC
Bookplate: 'Institution of Naval Architects, 2 Adam Street, Adelphi Terrace, London, W.C. 2. Scott Library Collection. Presented by Mr R.E. Scott, July, 1930.'
In a binding by James Scott of Edinburgh. Brown calf, gold-tooled, large-spot marbled endpapers, yellow edges mottled with indigo. Scott's label is also affixed to the recto of the title page of vol.1 (Loudon JS 98).
Machinery
London England.