A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads, and Interior Communication in General; with Original Experiments, and Tables of the Comparative Value of Canals and Railroads. Illustrated by Engravings.

WOOD, Nicholas (1795-1865).

London: Printed for Knight and Lacey, 1825. [Railway History]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[14]; 314. With five folding copper-engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Recently re-backed using original brown paper-covered boards, with a new brown paper-covered spine to style. Black titles to cream label on spine, with the date written by hand in black ink to base of spine. Plate of Newbury Reference Library to upper board, with shelf number written in black ink. All edges untrimmed. Complete with original publisher's adverts to prelims, with occasional light pencil marginalia. Wear to boards, especially fore-edges. Very good overall. Working closely with both George and Robert Stephenson, Wood was hugely influential in the development of early steam locomotives, having begun his career as a mining engineer in County Durham. This was his first book on the subject, which went on to be re-published in several new editions as his career developed over the following decades. Item #49491

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