1865 The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Eastern Railway (Cambridge Line)

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Rebound, Very Scarce

The very scarce first edition of George Measom's guide to the Great Eastern Railway.

Rebound, retaining the original front wrap.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and two folding maps, and numerous vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.

A detailed and comprehensive work on the Cambridge Line of the Great Eastern Railway, with 'descriptions of some of the most important manufactories in the towns on the line'.

With eight pages of advertisements to the start of the work, and eight to the rear. 

Undated, dated from the University of Oxford libraries.

Written by Sir George Samuel Measom, a British engraver and publisher who compiled guides to railway travel in Great Britain in the mid-19th century.