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Bury (Thomas Talbot) Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, second edition, 13 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by H.Pyall and S.G.Hughes after Bury including the plate of rolling stock, with the 3 rare additional folding or double-page hand-coloured aquatint plates by Hughes after I.Shaw, light marginal soiling or staining, folding plates torn at folds and repaired, modern dark green morocco, upper cover titled in gilt and with gilt rule border with small decorative corner-pieces, [Abbey Life 400; Ray 45; Tooley 120], 4to, Ackermann, 1832 [double-page plate dated 1832, the rest 1833; watermarked 1832].

The first combined issue of the original 2 parts, rare with the three additional plates, which are often missing as they were sold separately to the main work. They are: 'Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway', a pair, each with two views showing trains for First & Second Class passengers, and those for waggons and cattle (both in second state, with four yellow carriages in the first plate and a horsebox in the second); and 'View of the Intersection Bridge on the Line of the St.Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway'. Plates II & III have been re-engraved by S.G.Hughes and several of the others have been altered slightly to correct mistakes or updated.

Description

Bury (Thomas Talbot) Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, second edition, 13 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by H.Pyall and S.G.Hughes after Bury including the plate of rolling stock, with the 3 rare additional folding or double-page hand-coloured aquatint plates by Hughes after I.Shaw, light marginal soiling or staining, folding plates torn at folds and repaired, modern dark green morocco, upper cover titled in gilt and with gilt rule border with small decorative corner-pieces, [Abbey Life 400; Ray 45; Tooley 120], 4to, Ackermann, 1832 [double-page plate dated 1832, the rest 1833; watermarked 1832].

The first combined issue of the original 2 parts, rare with the three additional plates, which are often missing as they were sold separately to the main work. They are: 'Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway', a pair, each with two views showing trains for First & Second Class passengers, and those for waggons and cattle (both in second state, with four yellow carriages in the first plate and a horsebox in the second); and 'View of the Intersection Bridge on the Line of the St.Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway'. Plates II & III have been re-engraved by S.G.Hughes and several of the others have been altered slightly to correct mistakes or updated.

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