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The Official Guide to the Great Western Railway.
Publisher: Cassell & Company Limited, London;
Date of Publication: 1890
Stock Code: 12213
New & Revised Edition. Octavo, pp., [8] advertisements, 482, [8] advertisements. Complete with all maps as called for including Official Map in pocket to inside of upper board, four fold-out panoramic maps, 20 further fold-out maps and ten maps within text. Numerous topographical illustrations throughout. Publishers’ pictorial burgundy cloth, sympathetically re-backed using original boards, with original spine laid-on; black titles to spine, advert to lower board, image of Oxford and armorial to upper board and adverts to paste-down endpapers.

A very good copy. Cover cloth lightly soiled, with original spine toned; corners slightly bruised. Scattered light foxing, and a little marginal annotation in pencil. Official Map complete but split at folds. A guidebook from the Golden Age of railway travel, covering the destinations accessible from Great Western Railway lines. With all the information required for the discerning railway adventurer, with maps, attractions, hotel advertisements, all well illustrated with images of towns, cities and surrounding countryside and scenery. £125.00