Rees John G H (4 results)

200 / 216 pp. Good condition; touches of wear on covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Peggy Earnshaw (Cover); Nina Brisley; H Neilsen; CharlesFolkard Et Al (illustrator). 4to hbk with eanshaw illustrated boards and blue cloth spine; contains 3 full page b/w line drawing Brisley illustrations plus a lovely combination of other illustrations - both b/w & colour; front cover is a picture of a dog in a tub being washed with a girl sponging him and a boy holding up towel. Vg; foxing to pp foredges; ; Infant's Annual; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!