Author: Lecount, Lieut. Peter [1794 - 1852]
Title: A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON RAILWAYS, Explaining Their Construction and Management, with Numerous Woodcuts and Ten Plates: Being the Article "Railways" in the Seventh Edition of The Encyclopedia Britannica, With Additional Details
Description: Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1839. 1st edition (Goldsmith 31051). Original publisher's black cloth with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & boards stamped in blind. Yale yellow eps. Advert ["Black's British Atlas"] tipped in to ffep gutter. v, [3], 422, [2] pp. Partially unopened. Penultimate page - errata; last page an advert for other Lecount titles. Profusely illustrated, with the 10 fold-out plates at rear. 12mo. 8-1/8" x 5". Volume professionally recased. Period pos to t.p. top margin. A VG+ copy.

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