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The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer
de SMILES, Samuel
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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N.p.: The Pioneer Press, 1889. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and ornate and elaborate spine and front board black decorative stamping. xv, 463pp. Pink floral endpapers. Very good. Faint binding edgewear, else tight and internally bright and fine. A handsome later printing ("From the Fourth English Edition") of this popular 1857 biography of the "Father of Railways" (1781-1848), the renowned British mechanical and civil engineer. A superb copy from this publisher's "Self-Help Series.
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- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- 44966
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- The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer
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- SMILES, Samuel
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- The Pioneer Press
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- 1889
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- Books; Railroad;
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
