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BIRMINGHAM & LIVERPOOL CANAL
CUBITT (WILLIAM) A Report on the Financial State... PRESENTATION COPY, 1834; and other material

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BIRMINGHAM & LIVERPOOL CANAL

CUBITT (WILLIAM) A Report on the Financial State of the Birmingham & Liverpool Junction Canal... With an Appendix of Correspondence and Calculations Relating Thereto. March 1834, 1834; A Second Report... July 1836, 3 folding letterpress tables, 1836, FIRST EDITIONS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOSEPH BAXENDALE INSCRIBED "To Baxendale Esq.re with Mr. Cubitt's Compts." on the first title-page, 2 pages of contemporary manuscript notes of amendments, comments, etc. relating to the reports loosely inserted, early half calf, gilt lettered on spine, rubbed, 8vo, Printed by Roake and Varty--"... A List of Subscribers to the Proposed Portrait of Joseph Baxendale... by H.W. Pickersgill, R.A.", listing 56 named subscribers (mostly Pickford agents and employees), their years of service (between 46 and 2), and amount subscribed (from £10.10s £2.2s), 2-page circular with conjugate blank, lithographed, "London, 30 July 1846"--Collection of 25 photographic carte-de-visite portraits of Pickford agents and employees (many of whom were subscribers to the painting years earlier), albumen prints by various photographers, most of the sitters identified on verso or with cut signature kept with image, usually approx. 95 x 60mm. , [1860s] (small collection)

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Reports on the finances of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, inscribed by the engineer William Cubitt to his close friend Joseph Baxendale (1785-1872), the transport entrepreneur who was managing director of Pickford & Co. from 1817 to 1847, at which time a portrait of him was commissioned to mark his retirement from the role (moving to that of Chairman), painted by the Royal Academy artist Henry William Pickergill.

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