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Measom (George) The Official Illustrated Guide to the London and North-Western Railway, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations,numerous advertisements, original pictorial wrappers, a little rubbed and soiled, corners slightly frayed but a good copy, preserved in modern half dark maroon morocco, spine faded, 1856; The Official Illustrated Guide to the Brighton and South Coast Railways and their Branches, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, [c.1851-2]; and a map of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway of c.1884, 8vo (3)

⁂ The first is the one shilling (?now preferable) printed wrapper version, for 2s. it came in cloth with gilt edges. A rare survivor, by 1864 it had grown to 723 pages, and it stayed in print for over fifty years. There were various editions of the second work dated 1852, '53 & '54. This undated edition does not have the folding plate or map seen in others.

Description

Measom (George) The Official Illustrated Guide to the London and North-Western Railway, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations,numerous advertisements, original pictorial wrappers, a little rubbed and soiled, corners slightly frayed but a good copy, preserved in modern half dark maroon morocco, spine faded, 1856; The Official Illustrated Guide to the Brighton and South Coast Railways and their Branches, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, [c.1851-2]; and a map of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway of c.1884, 8vo (3)

⁂ The first is the one shilling (?now preferable) printed wrapper version, for 2s. it came in cloth with gilt edges. A rare survivor, by 1864 it had grown to 723 pages, and it stayed in print for over fifty years. There were various editions of the second work dated 1852, '53 & '54. This undated edition does not have the folding plate or map seen in others.

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