Description and condition:
Blue cloth hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 147pp, index, b/w and colour illustrations.
Very good with nice bright clean pages throughout, covers slightly dulled. In good dustcover with edge wear and chipping, now protected.
Contents:
The train in the landscape; torchbearers; foreign influences; mid-victorian trains; pomp and circumstance; pomp and circumstance no 2; the handmaids; these also... Appendix: on the naming of locomotives. Illustrated from photographs, drawings, and the author's paintings.