Lewin Henry Grote Introduction Revised (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket after The Illustrated London News (illustrator). Revised Edition. First published in 1936, this is a first revised edition of 1968. Some slight edge wear and chipping to largely pale grey unlaminated jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, spine slightly browned, not price clipped (63s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 526pp, illustrated. Railway historian Henry Grote Lewin's (1874-1937), third, and last, book 'The Railway Mania and Its Aftermath', first published in 1936, was instantly recognised as of outstanding importance to students of railways and railway history in particular. It deals not only with the mere physical expansion of the railway system in the momentous years between 1844 and 1852, but with the slow emergence of a policy (or lack of it) in Government's relations with railway promoters, traffic, train services and speeds, fares, working expenses, accidents, telegraphs, excursions and many other aspects of railways of contemporary concern and interest in the period. Its extended references to the Parliamentary side of railway development are particularly valuable. A scarce book.