Smith, Peter, — WATERWAYS HERITAGE.

Luton Museum and Art Gallery, Luton, 1975, reprint, 80pp, folding map and 3 folding half tone ills., maps, diagrams, half tone and sepia ills. in text, large landscape format (10.5 x 15.5 inches approx.) with side stapled binding, pictorial montage upper wrapper, an account of the inland waterways of Great Btitain, of the historical legisaltion that ensured that they were navigable and of their expansion with the development of the canals so that by the end of the 18th century an infrastructure of communication by waterways either existing or was planned and under contruction, using extracts from the many original sources held by Luton Museum and Art Gallery including accounts of the building of the canals, facsimiles of maps of routes, line drawings of vessels and construction sites, etc., forming a useful reference to the development of the British Waterways in its own right, a little rubbed at extrems., cnrs. inclined to curl, some marks to wrappers, light vertical crease through wrappers and text block, good plus,