Locomotive Engine Driving: A Practical Manual (signed copy)

PUBLISHER
Crosby, Lockwood & Co. London

BINDING
Illustrated red cloth boards with gilt and black lettering and design. Black endpapers.

BOOK CONDITION
Boards are generally worn, scuffed and discoloured, commensurate with age. Hinges are weakened, but binding feels secure. Browning and a little foxing, but text and images remain mostly clear and little marked. Tissue guard to frontispiece is discoloured and partly torn away at top. Ink inscription on flyleaf.

DUST JACKET
No.

EDITION
Third enlarged edition 1878, presentation copy.

DESCRIPTION
A detailed period manual, illustrated throughout with many wood engravings, figures and tables. Frontispiece portrait signed by the author, with an inscription to his nephew on the flyleaf. 258 pp plus a publishers list. 12mo, 18.5 x 13 cm.

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