\\ILLIAM SMITH : HIS MAPS AND MEMOIRS 117 
J. Harding, 36 St. James's Street, London." it seems that Smith's 
Treatise was sold for 8s.* 
I recently saw a second copy of this scarce work for sale in Quaritch's 
Catalogue, and obtained it. The title page of this is different from that 
of the first. Except with regard to very slight differences in the 
spacing, due to the re-making up of the form of type, it is the same 
as the title page of the volume already described, as far as the words. 
Engineer and Mineralogist." From this point the second copy reads : 
" Norwich : printed by R. M. Bacon, Cockey Lane ; and sold / by 
Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster p,ow, / London ; and 
all other booksellers. / 1806. "f 
This difference on the title page does not necessarily imply that 
there were two editions, or even tw^o impressions. It probably merely 
means that each London bookseller w^anted his own name on the title 
page. 
NAILSEA COLLIERIES, 1811. 
In 1811 was published, in connection with the Bristol and Taunton 
Canal, the " Reports of Mr. William Smith and Mr. Martin, on The 
Strata of the Collieries at and near Nailsea " (8 pp., f'cap, with plan 
and sections). J Snaith's report occupies pages 2 and 3, and he is of 
opinion that there is a sufficient supply of workable coal to justify the 
construction of a canal to the colHeries. It is written from " 15 
Buckingham Street, York Buildings, London," and is headed " Bristol, 
July 1, 1811." 
* Smith's book is the fourth on the list, and it is w^orthy of note 
that the first three are of distinctly Yorkshire interest, viz : — 
AN Essay on the means of improving POOR SOILS, where lime 
and mamu-e cannot be had. By Dr. John Aldebson, Hull. A new 
Edition improved, Svo., 2s. 
A Short Account of the DISEASES OF CORN, by Sir Joseph 
Banks, Bart. : a new Edition, with a letter from T. A. Knight, Esq., 
on the causes of Blight, and on a method of raising later crops of Garden 
Pease. Svo. with a Plate, 2s. 6d. 
Observations on the GRUB, and on the means of preventing 
the Ravages of Insects : by William Stickney, of Hedon. Svo, 
Second Edition, Is. 6d. 
t In this case there is no printer's imprint on the back of the title 
page. The copy in the London Geological Society's Library is similar 
to this one. 
I A copy is preserved in the Library of the Geological Society. 
