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| 041 | 0 | # | $a eng |
| 044 | # | # | $a uk |
| 100 | 1 | # | $a Dodd, Ralph |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | $a Letters To A Merchant, On The Improvement Of The Port of London; $b Demonstrating Its Practicability Without Wet Docks, Or Any Additional Burdens Being Laid On Shipping, And At A less Expense of Time and Money than any other Plan proposed. By R. Dodd, Engineer. |
| 260 | # | # | $a $b $c 1798. |
| 300 | # | # | $a 18 p.; $c 218 mm. (Octavo). |
| 505 | 0 | # | $a [T.p.] - [Text]. |
| 510 | 0 | # |
$a J.G. James, 'Ralph Dodd the very ingenious schemer', in Transactions [Newcomen Society], 47 (1974-6), p.161-78. Studies of port planning and civil engineering include: N. Ritchie-Noakes, Old docks (1987); D.J. Olsen, Town planning in London (rev. 1982); H. Straub, A history of civil engineering (1952). A study of Dodd and his brother as marine painters is: G.W. Younger, 'Robert and Ralph Dodd: marine painters', in Mariner's mirror, 10:3 (1924), p.247-351. |
| 510 | 4 | # | $a ESTC $c T6468 |
| 520 | 2 | # |
$a Ralph Dodd had earlier published a Report on the various improvements, civil and military, that might be made in the haven or harbour of Hartlepool (1795) and an Account of the principal canals in the known world (1795). He also painted some marine pictures, like his better-known brother, Robert, who exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1782 to 1809. |
| 533 | # | # | $n A microfilm version was published in 1974 (New Haven CT: Research Publications). |
| 561 | # | # | $a Acquired between 1798 and 1802. Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802. |
| 563 | # | # | $a 20th-century half morocco, brown cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Tracts R.A.'. Bound with seven others. |
| 653 | # | # | $a Harbors - Ports - Business - Bridges - Engineering - Waterways - Great Britain - London - History - 18th century |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Letters - Great Britain - 18th century |
| 852 | 8 | # | $d 1802: 2-3-01; 1821: H-3-02 |