BURY (THOMAS TALBOT) Six Coloured Views on the London and Birmingham Railway, from Drawings Made on the Line with the Sanction of the Company, Part I [all published], 6 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Harris and others after Bury, repair in lower margin of plate 6, red crushed half morocco gilt by Bumpus, spine lettered in gilt within 2 raised bands, publisher's buff printed wrappers bound in, corners rubbed [Abbey Life 401; Tooley 122], 4to (352 x 290mm.), Ackermann & Co., 1837 Fußnoten A very good copy of "one of the rarest of English colour plate books" (Tooley), and the scarcest of Bury's railway books. Provenance: Sir David Lionel Salomons, circular armorial bookplate.
BURY (THOMAS TALBOT) Six Coloured Views on the London and Birmingham Railway, from Drawings Made on the Line with the Sanction of the Company, Part I [all published], 6 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Harris and others after Bury, repair in lower margin of plate 6, red crushed half morocco gilt by Bumpus, spine lettered in gilt within 2 raised bands, publisher's buff printed wrappers bound in, corners rubbed [Abbey Life 401; Tooley 122], 4to (352 x 290mm.), Ackermann & Co., 1837 Fußnoten A very good copy of "one of the rarest of English colour plate books" (Tooley), and the scarcest of Bury's railway books. Provenance: Sir David Lionel Salomons, circular armorial bookplate.
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