TELEGRAPH, ATLANTIC CABLE]. RUSSELL, William. The Atlantic telegraph . London: Day & Son, [ca. 1866]. 4 o. Original green cloth, elaborately gilt-stamped on front cover and spine, paper onlay on front cover representing a cross-section of the Atlantic cable. A lavish and beautifully illustrated Victorian "gift book" commemorating the successful laying of Cyrus Field's Atlantic cable in 1866. The book was written by William Howard Russell, a famous war correspondent with the London Times ; Russell was the only journalist allowed to travel with Field's expedition. The illustrations are by the London artist Robert Dudley who accompanied Russell on the voyage. Russell's work contains an early history of the Atlantic cable project, describing its inception in the mind of Cyrus Field in the mid-1850s, the first Atlantic cable of 1858, which failed only a few weeks after its completion; Field's second attempt of 1865, which ended with the loss of the cable after two-thirds of it had been laid; and the eventual triumph of Field's Atlantic cable venture in 1866. Several of Dudley's plates show the Great Eastern (discussed in Brunel's letter to Latimer Clark, OOC 132, part of lot 87) then the largest steamship in the world, which Field engaged to lay the second and third Atlantic cables; other plates illustrate the laying of the first Atlantic cable, the geographic sites of the cable's endpoints, recovery of lost cables, etc. OOC 189. [ With: ] BRIGGS, Charles F. and MAVERICK, Augustus. The story of the telegraph, and a history of the great Atlantic cable ... New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1858. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. OOC 127. -- BRIGHT, Charles. The life story of Sir Charles Tilston Bright, civil engineer, with which is incorporated the story of the Atlantic cable ... London: Archibald Constable & Co.; New York: D. van Nostrand Co, 1908. Original dark blue cloth. OOC 130. -- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Lords. Report of the joint committee appointed by the lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and the Atlantic Telegraph Company to inquire into the construction of submarine telegraph cables ... London: Eyre and Spottiswoode for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1861. Modern quarter morocco, marbled boards; original blue printed wrappers bound in. OOC 151.
TELEGRAPH, ATLANTIC CABLE]. RUSSELL, William. The Atlantic telegraph . London: Day & Son, [ca. 1866]. 4 o. Original green cloth, elaborately gilt-stamped on front cover and spine, paper onlay on front cover representing a cross-section of the Atlantic cable. A lavish and beautifully illustrated Victorian "gift book" commemorating the successful laying of Cyrus Field's Atlantic cable in 1866. The book was written by William Howard Russell, a famous war correspondent with the London Times ; Russell was the only journalist allowed to travel with Field's expedition. The illustrations are by the London artist Robert Dudley who accompanied Russell on the voyage. Russell's work contains an early history of the Atlantic cable project, describing its inception in the mind of Cyrus Field in the mid-1850s, the first Atlantic cable of 1858, which failed only a few weeks after its completion; Field's second attempt of 1865, which ended with the loss of the cable after two-thirds of it had been laid; and the eventual triumph of Field's Atlantic cable venture in 1866. Several of Dudley's plates show the Great Eastern (discussed in Brunel's letter to Latimer Clark, OOC 132, part of lot 87) then the largest steamship in the world, which Field engaged to lay the second and third Atlantic cables; other plates illustrate the laying of the first Atlantic cable, the geographic sites of the cable's endpoints, recovery of lost cables, etc. OOC 189. [ With: ] BRIGGS, Charles F. and MAVERICK, Augustus. The story of the telegraph, and a history of the great Atlantic cable ... New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1858. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. OOC 127. -- BRIGHT, Charles. The life story of Sir Charles Tilston Bright, civil engineer, with which is incorporated the story of the Atlantic cable ... London: Archibald Constable & Co.; New York: D. van Nostrand Co, 1908. Original dark blue cloth. OOC 130. -- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Lords. Report of the joint committee appointed by the lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and the Atlantic Telegraph Company to inquire into the construction of submarine telegraph cables ... London: Eyre and Spottiswoode for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1861. Modern quarter morocco, marbled boards; original blue printed wrappers bound in. OOC 151.
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