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Auction archive: Lot number 141

The Railway Magazine Illustrated. A set of four volumes in publisher’s bindings, comprising

Auktion 14.05.2015
14 May 2015
Estimate
£100 - £200
ca. US$154 - US$309
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 141

The Railway Magazine Illustrated. A set of four volumes in publisher’s bindings, comprising

Auktion 14.05.2015
14 May 2015
Estimate
£100 - £200
ca. US$154 - US$309
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

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)

Auction archive: Lot number 141
Auction:
Datum:
14 May 2015
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
Beschreibung:

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)

Auction archive: Lot number 141
Auction:
Datum:
14 May 2015
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
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