Eleven separate publications bound together and presented by the prolific and influential Newcastle mining engineer and pit owner Thomas Young Hall. This volume covers the gamut of Hall’s professional activities, with papers on safety measures to deal with dangerous gases, a paper deriving from his American experiences in Virginia’s coal mines and assessments of the potential of coal reserves in Austria and his beloved north east England.
This volume comes closest to OCLC 11822347 but has one additional paper to that volume - it seems that Hall kept expanding this compilation volume from 1855 onwards - the earlier title page is laid in. A testament to Victorian industry:
DESCRIPTION: Large octavo bound in brown shot silk with gilt lettering to the spine. Bookplate removed from front pastedown and a presentation inscription from the author opposite: ‘From Tho. Y Hall’
1 - Memoir of Thomas Y Hall, Esq., Mining Engineer, Eldon Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, lithographed frontispiece, pp10
2 - A Treatise on the Extent & Probable Duration of Northern Coal Field, 1854, Andrew Reid, Newcastle, large folding map of the Great Northern Coalfield - detached, pp168
3 - Continuation of a Paper on Improvements in Colliery Workings, and Further Observations on Safety Lamps, 1853, Andrew Reid with frontispiece
4 - The Coal Measures of Styria, 1855, 10 plates
5 - General Observations on the Past and Present Position of the Austrian Empire, pp12
6 - Statistical Notes on The Coal and Iron Production of the United States of America, 1856, pp16
7 - North of England Institute of Mining Engineers. On the Safety Lamp for The Use of Coal Miners, 1854, Wodderspoon, London, pp16, frontispiece and 3 plates
8 - Penetrating Dangerous Gases, 1853, 3 plates
9 - Improvements in Coal Mining. The Introduction of the Tub, Cage and Guide-Rod System, Mining Journal, 1858
10 - Notes on the Production and Consumption of Coal in France - large coloured folding map frontispiece, pp49-112
11 - The Rivers, Ports and Harbours of the Great Northern Coal-Field with a Plan, 1861, A Reid, Newcastle - large coloured map frontispiece, pp42
