Views of the Manchester and Leeds Railway: Drawn from Nature, and on Stone

Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1971. Reprint. Folio (44.5cm); red cloth spine over yellow cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; purple endpapers; dustjacket; 34,[n.p.]pp; black-and-white unnumbered illustrative plates. Previous owner's pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Modest shelf-wear and soil, and light rubbing to board edges with slight loss to red cloth; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced £6.00), with shelf-wear and soil, trace foxing, light peeling to front spine fold, and tape reinforcements to verso of extremities; Good. Explores the Manchester and Leeds Railway, known also as the Lancashire and Yorkshire, in the mid-1800s. Concludes with full-page reprints of Tait's lithographs showing trains and railway scenery. [85146].