The Victorian Railway.
by SIMMONS Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Thames & Hudson,, [1991]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 60 fine photographs on 32 plates, small personal book-label on front free endpaper; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Wide-ranging survey from the foremost authority on the subject. Professor Simmons demonstrates the extent to which the spread of the railways was the most profound social force of the nineteenth century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7578
- Title
- The Victorian Railway.
- Author
- SIMMONS Jack
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson,
- Date Published
- [1991]
- Keywords
- topography, railways, rail transport, transport, nineteenth century, jack simmons, transport, railways, victorian, railway
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- Dustwrapper
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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