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"Alfred Crowquill". How He Reigned and How He Mizzled: A Railway Raillery, the set of 8 lithographed plates by Crowquill comprising 26 illustrations in strip-form, light foxing (mostly to first plate), original pictorial lithographed wrappers, foxed and soiled, spine reinforced, preserved in modern cloth portfolio, [Ottley 5265], 1849 § "Veritas Vincit". Railway Locomotive Management, in a series of letters...reprinted from the "Railway Record", lightly browned, original cloth, spine faded and worn at ends, [Haskell 3912; Ottley 2940], 1847 § [Peace (John)] A Descant upon Railroads, by X.A.P., a few pencil annotations, title spotted, modern cloth with facsimile title mounted on upper cover, original wrappers bound in (rubbed and soiled, one corner repaired), [Ottley 4809], 1842 § Railways and the Board of Trade, stitched (previously disbound with stab-holes to inner margin), lightly browned, [Haskell 3034; Ottley 5375], 1845 § Board of Trade. Reports of the Railway Department...on Schemes for Extending Railway Communication, and on Amalgamations of Railways, modern cloth preserving original cloth on both covers, upper with original paper label with contemporary signature, [Ottley 427], 1845 § Amalgamation of Railways (The) considered as affecting the Internal Commerce of the Country, ex-library copy with ink stamp to upper wrapper, modern cloth, original printed wrappers bound in (a little soiled and reinforced at edges), [Haskell 3140; Ottley 5066], 1846 § Whitehead (John) Railway Prostration. Causes, and Remedies. Letter to the Right Hon. Sir Robt. Peel..., [Ottley 4344], modern calf-backed marbled boards, 1849, all but the second first editions; and another pamphlet of 1849 [Ottley 5263], 8vo (8)