8vo. viii, 184pp. With three folding lithographed maps and a folding lithographed diagram. Unopened. Bound by R. Nelson of Glasgow in original publisher's blind-stamped brick-red cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. A trifle rubbed and marked. Ticket of Glaswegian bookseller Hugh Hopkins to FEP. Scattered spotting.

The sole edition of a monograph on the nineteenth century developments made to the water supply to Glasgow - in particular the construction of an aqueduct at Loch Katrine commenced in 1855 to prevent further cholera outbreaks in the city - by John Burnet, secretary to the Glasgow Corporation Water Works Commissioners.