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1864 Locomotive Engines, What They Are, and What They Ought To Be
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Description
First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Rebound, Very Scarce
A very scarce first edition.
Original front wrap is bound in.
Illustrated with thirteen plates, seven of which are folding. Collated, all plates are present, bound without the rear wrap.
An interesting treatise on locomotives by the important railway engineer Robert Francis Fairlie.
In this work, Fairlie asks what locomotives are, and how they ought to develop. This was published during the early days of development of the transportation, during the booming Industrial Revolution.
Fairlie invented the double-bogie articulate locomotive, named after himself.
Condition
Rebound in a modern cloth binding, with the original front wrap bound in. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age-toned and clean. Original front wrap is edge worn, a little discoloured, with light marks.
Near Fine
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