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1883 Our Iron Roads: Their History, Construction, and Administration
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Description
Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The third edition of this volume published in the same year as the first edition, 1883.
A work by Frederick S Williams on the history of travelling and transportation, detailing the rise and progress of the humanising industries from the old coaching days and the troubles in travelling to the railways and the issue of goods and minerals traffic. An interesting volume on one of the most sides of history: the industrial progress.
With a conclusion and an Index to the rear, as well as six pages of publisher's advertisement and reviews to the rear.
Illustrated throughout with various illustrations in text.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to the edges. Externally sound with slight shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and the extremities. With a vertical cracking to the front joint. A library stamp to the verso of the title page. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Illustrated throughout with various in text illustrations.
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