1847 Railway Practice: A Collection of Working Plans and Practical Details of Construction in the Public Works

Description

Early Edition, First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Rebound, Very Scarce

Present here are the third edition of volume I, the second edition of volume II, and the first editions of volumes III and IV.

This work is considered to be of the foremost sources of contemporary information on civil engineering issues relating to early railways and rolling stock.

The First Series mostly concerns the London & Birmingham Railway; the Second Series includes aspects of the Great Western, the London & Croydon, and specifications and contracts for works on the Birmingham & Gloucester, while the Third and Fourth Series's are mostly devoted to French railways. 

Volume I is illustrated with a double-page lithographed frontispiece after Brees, and sixty-nine double page plates. Collated, complete.

Volume II is illustrated with a double-page lithographed frontispiece and seventy double-paged plates. Collated, complete.

Volume III is illustrated with sixty-nine double-paged plates. Collated, complete.

Volume III is illustrated with sixty-nine double-paged and folding plates. Collated, complete.

With the bookplate of Arthur Elton, who himself authored a 1940s work on the British Railways, to each front pastedown.

Not present here is the 1839 appendix volume.

The author was involved in engineering the London to Birmingham line under Stephenson. He later went to New Zealand, and produced a topographical work on the country.