114b. Smeaton, John.
A / NARRATIVE OF THE BUILDING / AND / A DESCRIPTION
OF THE CONSTRUCTION / OF THE / EDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE
/ WITH STONE: / TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED, / AN
APPENDIX, / GIVING SOME ACCOUNT OF / THE LIGHTHOUSE
ON THE SPURN POINT, / BUILT UPON A SAND. / BY
JOHN SMEATON, CIVIL ENGINEER, F. R. S. / THE SECOND
EDITION. / LONDON: / PRINTED BY T. DAVISON, LOMBARDSTREET,
WHITEFRIARS; / FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES,
ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. / 1813.
Folio. Title page ([i]); dedication ([iii-iv]); preface ([v]-vi); table of
contents ([vii]-xiv); text ([1]-184); appendix ([185]-92); description
of plates ([193]-98); 23 engraved plates.
For information about John Smeaton, see No. 114a. The contents of this
edition are the same as those in the edition of 1791.
Kean's catalogue of May 1825 shows that the University library
owned a copy of Smeaton's Narrative; the 1828 Catalogue annotation of
the copy identifies it as likely to be this 1813 edition. Nevertheless, Jefferson
included the Narrative in the section on "Architecture" of the
want list. Since he owned a copy of the 1791 edition, it may have been
that edition that he was ordering for the University. He is presumed,
however, to have been a party to the acquisition of the 1813 edition and
may simply have forgotten that the title had already been acquired. The
library's copy did not survive, but a duplicate has recently entered the
University collections, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation.
U. Va.
*TC375.S63.1791a
