FREELING, Arthur. - The London and Birmingham railway companion, containing a complete description of every thing worthy of attention on the line : of the gentlemen's seats, villas, towns, villages, rivers, markets, and fairs : an account of the churches, endowments, livings and patrons : list of races : and an account of the hunting and angling stations near the line : also, fare and timetables : with a map, showing the length of every excavation and embankment, the exact distance from one station to another, the gradients of the rails, the radius of the curves, and a section of the ground previous to the commencement of the railroad operations.

London: published by Whittaker and Co; Liverpool: Henry Lacey; Birmingham: Wrightson and Webb, [1838]. 14cm. 204pp, multifolding map, folding table, [4], 36, 8 (on blue paper)pp terminal adverts. Original decorated green grained-cloth gilt. Spine browned and neat small repair to tips. Formerly in the library of P. H. (Puffer) Edwards, one of the foremost dealers in railway material at the end of the last century.

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