An address to the British public
Subtitle: with suggestions for the recovering property from sunken vessels; also, for the means for rescuing the lives of sailors from stranded vessels; and for the prevention of shipwreck; likewise, on the extinction and prevention of destructive fires; and for rescuing persons from houses enveloped in flames: and for saving from drowning persons who break through the ice. With a description and representation of apparatus used for those purposes, and instructions for their application
By: By G.W. Manby
Contributors: Joy, John, 1806-1859 or 1860, illustrator; Joy, William, 1803-1859 or 1860, illustrator
Publisher: Published by John Gathercole, at the Polytechnic Institution
Published: 1838
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Lifesaving; Equipment and supplies; Resuscitation; Fire extinction; Salvage; Drowning; Shipwrecks
Notes: "Printed by John Gathercole"--t.p. verso.

Plates drawn by William and John Joy. There is an appendix describing William's drawings, exhibited in the Polytechnic Gallery, of the wreck of the Killarney steamship. On the Joys, see C. Miller, "Painting's elusive Joys", Country life, 1977, pp. 952-5.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: R. Gaskell Note: Binding: Contemp. binder's embossed cloth. Ownership inscription of A.W.F. Fuller dated 8 April 1838 on front free endpaper. Visiting card of Mrs J.F.C. Fuller and postcard to Francis Steer from E. Fuller. Modern book label of Francis W. Steer, Chichester