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    By Samuel Smiles
    London   John Murray
    9.5" by 6.5" xv [3], 4-521pp
    A handsomely bound first edition of Samuel Smiles's biography of two important steam-engine engineers from the 19th century.
    By Samuel Smiles

    1865 Lives of Boulton and Watt

    London   John Murray
    9.5" by 6.5" xv [3], 4-521pp
    A handsomely bound first edition of Samuel Smiles's biography of two important steam-engine engineers from the 19th century.
    £180.00
    : 1.5kgs / : 982F29
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    Description

    First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Prize Binding

    The first edition, in a morocco prize binding from King's College, London.

    A biography of Boulton & Watt was an early British engineering and manufacturing firm in the business of designing and making marine and stationary steam engines, founded by English manufacturer Matthew Boulton and the Scottish engineer James Watt.

    This book is intended to conclude Smiles' five volume Lives of Engineers (1862) and was inspired by the success of Life of George Stephenson (1857). Smiles was a British author and government reformer who wrote many biographies of successful inspiring men of the Victorian age whose success stories aligned with his libertarian beliefs. 

    Illustrated with a frontispiece, one further plate, and numerous vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.

    Prize bookplate dated 1894 to the front pastedown.

    Condition

    In a full morocco prize binding with gilt detailing and blind tooling. Externally, exceptional. Prize bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with instances of spotting throughout.

    Very Good Indeed

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