1853 BRADSHAW'S Continental Railway Guide by George, Bradshaw - 2016-01-01

HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2016* Publisher: Harper-Collins.* Binding and cover condition: dark brown textured-paper covered boards, gilt title to face. No bumps or rubs. No visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, black titles to face and gilt titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £20.00. No visible faults. Now in clear protective wrapper. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (dark brown). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: A number of b/w line drawn maps at rear.* Pages: 377 pp. text. large block of adverisemments & blank (Travel Journal) pages at rear.* Description: Bradshaw's descriptive handbook to the railway journeys in Europe dated 1853 was produced at a time that the railways became essential for tourism as well as infrastructure. This new larger format facsimile edition gives you the chance to explore what is now common, through the eyes of a continent for whom rail travel was still a novelty of the age.* A FINE text copy of the 1st thus, 1st imp. fnl. with no visible faults in a FINE, AS NEW, protected dust jacket.*