1976 The Old Telegraphs

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First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Geoffrey Wilson provides a comprehensive history of the development of telegraphs, of the shutter, semaphore, and any other kind of visual mechanical telegraphs developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. The first edition of this work. With the unclipped dust wrapper. 

Illustrated with ninety full page plates and numerous figures in text. Collated, complete.

From the library at Julian Park, Hertfordshire, belonging to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire, sister to Edward James, a key figure in the Surrealist movement, and the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII.

She was an English socialite known for her beauty and for charming various wealthy men, she was included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton. A patron of the arts, she assisted Viscount Carlow financially in the publication of limited editions of numerous works by leading literary figures such as T E Lawrence, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and others. A hedonistic pursuer, she was recognised as one of the 'Bright Young Things'.