A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads, and Interior Communication in General; with Original Experiments, and Tables of the Comparative Value of Canals and Railroads. Illustrated

by Engravings by Nicholas Wood

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First edition

London: Printed for Knight and Lacey, 1825. Railway History FIRST EDITION. Octavo 24 x 15cm , pp. 14 ; 314. With five folding copper-engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Recently re-backed using original brown paper-covered boards, with a new brown paper-covered spine to style. Black titles to cream label on spine, with the date written by hand in black ink to base of spine. Plate of Newbury Reference Library to upper board, with shelf number written

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