Notes And Sketches Marine 1

CLARK, John: The Town of Renfrew,

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1824. Hand-coloured aquatint, 'drawn on the spot by I. Clark'. 14 7/8 x 21 7/8 inches. 18 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches. An historically important topographical view of Renfrew, a Royal burgh, now in the Scottish region of Strathclyde in Scotland, from John Clark's 'Views in Scotland'. There is some debate as to who executed this stunning print. There is no reference which identifies the author of this view, but there is some indication that it is the work of the celebrated painter John Heaviside Clark (1770-1863). Born in Scotland, Clark exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1801 and 1832. He was primarily a landscape and marine painter, but he also produced a number of fine aquatints, which exhibit his exceptional talents as an engraver. Known as "Waterloo Clark" for his early sketches of the battle of Waterloo, he was a painter of some repute across the British Isles, and his beautiful views remain some of the most attractive images of the English countryside. A contemporary gazetteer notes that the town was 'a royal burgh and parish in the county of the same name.' (Fullarton [publisher's] A Gazetteer of the World 1856, VI, p.257). The population in 1821 was 2,646 and had risen to 3,898 by 1851. The town was within half a mile of the River Clyde, 3 miles north of Paisley and 6 miles west of Glasgow. The town consisted of 'only a single street, about a 1/2 mile in length, with some lanes. The inhabitants are chiefly occupied in the weaving of silks and muslins; and there is a bleachfield, and a starch manufactory' (op.cit). A modern source notes that Renfrew now has a population of 21,550 and the chief source of employment is from the shipyards and manufacturers of rubber, paint, and soap. Cf. Abbey Scenery 489; cf. Prideaux p.331; Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, vol 3, p. 676

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Sothern, J.W.M. (J.K. Bowden, reviser): "Verbal" notes and sketches for marine engineer officers; a manual of marine steam engineering practice specially compiled to satisfy the standard of the Ministry of Transport examinations. Two volumes. n.d. Glasgow, James Munro & Company, [ ; fester Einband / hard cover

Hardcover Vol. 1: lettering slightly rubbed; front endpaper and some page margins slightly foxed; front pastedown bubbled; Vol. 2: endpapers partially browned; strip of old tape adhesive on each pastedown; margin of some pages slightly foxed; otherwise both vols. very good condition (no dust jackets). ]. 19 sections, separately paged. Illus. Volume 1 is 18th edition. Volume 2 is 17th edition.

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Sothern, J. W. M, (Revised by Bowden, J. K.): "Verbal" Notes and Sketches for Marine Engineer Officers: A Manual of Marine Steam Engineering Practice, Volume 1 and 2, [in 2 volumes] Published by James Munro & Company Ltd. , Glasgow , no date given, [1951]
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, 2 uniform volumes, each illustrated throughout with numerous black ink fold-out engineering diagrams and diagrams within the text, includes Question Paper of previous owner Eighteenth Edition, reprint Hardback , gilt faded on covers and spines, cloth scufefd at edges, vol 2 moderately stained covers, books are in good condition

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CLARK, John: The City of Glasgow,

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1824. Hand-coloured aquatint, 'drawn on the spot by I. Clark'. 14 3/4 x 21 1/2 inches. 18 3/4 x 24 3/4 inches. An historically important topographical view of Glasgow in Scotland, from John Clark's 'Views in Scotland'. There is some debate as to who executed this stunning print. There is no reference which identifies the author of this view, but there is some indication that it is the work of the celebrated painter John Heaviside Clark (1770-1863). Born in Scotland, Clark exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1801 and 1832. He was primarily a landscape and marine painter, but he also produced a number of fine aquatints, which exhibit his exceptional talents as an engraver. Known as "Waterloo Clark" for his early sketches of the battle of Waterloo, he was a painter of some repute across the British Isles, and his beautiful views remain some of the most attractive images of the English countryside. A contemporary gazetteer notes that the city was 'the manufacturing and commercial metropolis of Scotland, and the third city of the United Kingdom in point of population, and perhaps of wealth also.' (Fullarton [publisher's] A Gazetteer of the World 1856, III, p.615). According to the same source the population in 1821 was 147,043, the present view taken at about that time shows a city that is increasingly industrialised: factory chimneys are beginning to cast a pall of smoke over the city, but it has not yet come to completely overrun the landscape in which it is set. The population was to more than double in the next 20 years with the census of 1851 recording a population of 346,984. Cf. Abbey Scenery 489; cf. Prideaux p.331; Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, vol 3, p. 676

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