Russell (William Howard . The Atlantic Telegraph, illustrated by Robert Dudley 1st edition, Day & Son Limited, [1865], pictorial colour lithograph title mounted on card, 24 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates by Day and Son after Robert Dudley single uncoloured chart, all mounted on card, 4 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear, some light scattered spotting (title more heavily spotted), all edges gilt, later bookplate of Samuel Gurney to front pastedown, original gilt-decorated plum and green cloth, slightly rubbed to extremities (generally a good copy in the original binding), folio (42 x 29.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Sabin 74396; not in Abbey or Tooley. The large-paper folio edition of W.H. Russell's book commemorating the laying of the Atlantic cable by Brunel's Great Eastern.
Russell (William Howard . The Atlantic Telegraph, illustrated by Robert Dudley 1st edition, Day & Son Limited, [1865], pictorial colour lithograph title mounted on card, 24 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates by Day and Son after Robert Dudley single uncoloured chart, all mounted on card, 4 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear, some light scattered spotting (title more heavily spotted), all edges gilt, later bookplate of Samuel Gurney to front pastedown, original gilt-decorated plum and green cloth, slightly rubbed to extremities (generally a good copy in the original binding), folio (42 x 29.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Sabin 74396; not in Abbey or Tooley. The large-paper folio edition of W.H. Russell's book commemorating the laying of the Atlantic cable by Brunel's Great Eastern.
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