The Railway Magazine Illustrated. A set of four volumes in publisher’s bindings, comprising Volumes I to IV, including the monthly issues from July 1897 to June 1899 inclusive, bound without covers or advertisements, the large 8vo volumes are uniformly bound in dark green cloth with decoration in black and gilt lettering/banding to the spines, and volumes II to IV have all edges gilt, volume I has the bookplate of James D. Thomas on the front free end-paper, each volume has a title page and index bound in at the front, and each monthly issue commences with an ‘Illustrated Interview’, with a full-page portrait frontispiece of the railway personality concerned, all the volumes are profusely illustrated with photographs, line drawings, maps and text figures, Volume I includes a large folding map of The International Company’s Palace Hotels, and Volume III includes a folding colour plate of Great Northern Railway Express Locomotive No. 990, the cloth bindings are very slightly rubbed, and there is some browning of pages due to the age of the volumes, but altogether a very attractive set of volumes. (4)
The Railway Magazine Illustrated. A set of four volumes in publisher’s bindings, comprising Volumes I to IV, including the monthly issues from July 1897 to June 1899 inclusive, bound without covers or advertisements, the large 8vo volumes are uniformly bound in dark green cloth with decoration in black and gilt lettering/banding to the spines, and volumes II to IV have all edges gilt, volume I has the bookplate of James D. Thomas on the front free end-paper, each volume has a title page and index bound in at the front, and each monthly issue commences with an ‘Illustrated Interview’, with a full-page portrait frontispiece of the railway personality concerned, all the volumes are profusely illustrated with photographs, line drawings, maps and text figures, Volume I includes a large folding map of The International Company’s Palace Hotels, and Volume III includes a folding colour plate of Great Northern Railway Express Locomotive No. 990, the cloth bindings are very slightly rubbed, and there is some browning of pages due to the age of the volumes, but altogether a very attractive set of volumes. (4)
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