Author: Sir John Betjeman [introduction]; George Perry [ editor]
Title: The Book of the Great Western
Description: London, The Sunday Times Magazine, 1970. Cloth. A unique and interactively illustrated limited edition of this history of the Great Western Railway with insightful ephemera. Limited edition of three thousand copies. This is copy number two thousand seven hundred. Illustrated in an interactive manner throughout with maps, photographs, drawings, facsimile safety and training signs, and facsimile tickets. With a folding facsimile prospectus of the initiative for a link in railways between London and Bristol, the accommodation plan for Queen Victoria's funeral train, and a paper plan to build your own colour 3D train with all pieces in mint condition. Also includes a fold-out poster of an original painting of The Iron Duke by Cuthbert Hamilton-Ellis, an English railway writer and painter who was an Associate of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers. Lacking a wax seal to the introduction. With an exciting detailed history of The Great Western Railway, the British railway company known for connecting London to the South West of England, West Midlands, and much of Wales. With an introduction written by Sir John Betjeman, an English poet, writer, and broadcaster remembered as poet laureate from 1972. Edited by George Perry, an English writer and editor. In the original quarter cloth with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Light glue residue where wax seal is missing to introduction. Near Fine . Ill.: C. Hamilton Ellis. Near Fine .

Keywords: Book Great Western Railway Betjeman Great Western Hamilton Ellis C. Hamilton Ellis


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