< Back

[Head, Sir Francis Bond]
Stokers and Pokers; or, the London and North-Western Railway, the Electric Telegraph, and the Railway Clearing-House.[Bound With] High-Ways & Dry-Ways; or, the Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges.
Publisher: John Murray, London;
Date of Publication: 1849
Stock Code: 5231
Octavo, variously pp 208 & [4] 83. Third edition of Stokers, first edition of High-Ways. Half calf with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to black label to spine, decoration in blind to compartments, all edges marbled. Spine sunned and corners scuffed; foredge of upper board bruised. Bookseller’s ticket (scuffed) and armorial bookplate of John A Irving to front pastedown, below inscribed initials dated 1850. Scattered foxing, mainly to endpapers and prelims, otherwise contents clean. A Very Good copy. A history of the railway company including construction of the line, rolling stock, deliveries and goods carried, with notes on places of importance on the route and the 1849 Rules and Regulations. Sir Francis Bond Head (1793-1875) was an officer in the Royal Engineers and Lieut-General of Upper Canada at the time of the 1837 rebellion; he wrote several works on travel and politics including “Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau” 1834. £100.00