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Cloth. Condición: Poor. No Jacket. This book is blue with gold lettering on its spine. It has significant water damage on both covers, which only permeates to the endpapers. However, the edges of the pages are also damaged. The title page is a normal title page, but the frontispiece serves as a title page for the entire series. The cover boards are very slightly warped with corner bumping. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Couverture rigide. Condición: Très bon. 332 p. includes the Homiletic Commentaryu of the Book of Numbers by William Jones, 282 p. ex-libris, cover slightly worn, page code 2233.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. All pages appear clean and unmarked. Light foxing to top of text block.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 2001 Newcomen Society hardcover edition. Some reading wear, lean to spine else good condition. Contents: (1) Introduction, (2) Keynote address, Sir Neil Cossons, (3) Railways in the Greek and Roman world, (4) A rediscovered early rail waggon, (5) Pre-1840 trackways in south Wales, (6) Transitional technology: the Nantlle railway, (7) The railways of James Watt, (8) An engineering assessment of the Kilmarnock & Troon railway (1807-46), (9) Early railways in Dorset: the industrial railway of Purbeck, (10) North eastern locomotive pioneers 1805 to 1827; a reassessment, (11) The strange story of the Steam Elephant, (12) Rope haulage: the forgotten element of railway history, (13) An alternative railway technology: early monorail systems, (14) Rings, springs, strings and things: the national collection pre 1840, (15) The first steam locomotives on the European mainland, (16) The origins of the St Etienne rail roads, 181-38; French industrial espionage and British technology transfer, (17) The transfer of pioneering British railroad technology to North America, (18) The Albion mines railway of 1839-1840; some British roots of Canada's first industrial railway, (19) Learning through restoration; the Samson locomotive project, (20) Coal, banks and railways, (21) Early railways and regional identity, (22) The Stanhope and Tyne railway; a study in business failure, (23) Reflections on the iconography of early railways.