Chester and Holyhead Railway. Statistical Memoranda and Tubular Bridge Reports, titled on front printed wrapper. Statistical Memoranda of the Chester and Holyhead Railway. April, 1846. Private and Confidential. WITH Chester and Holyhead Railway. Reports of Mr. Robert Stephenson, Mr. Wm. Fairbairn, & Mr. E. Hodgkinson, upon the Experiments made to Ascertain the Practicability of Erecting a Tubular Bridge across the Menai Straits, for the Passage of Railway Trains. 1846

Two pamphlets bound together, 16pp. & 20pp., 8vo., signed in black ink to head of front wrapper & repeated in purple ink to head of Statistical Memoranda, 'Private and Confidential/George King.', buff paper wraps, sl. wear otherwise very good. Two uncommon Chester & Holyhead Railway pamphlets of which we can find no record of their being issued together. The Stephenson pamphlet is particularly uncommon. George King was a railway speculator and his name occurs frequently in the early history of the Railways. Fairbairn & Stephenson patented the new principle of wrought-iron girders that had been devised for the bridge. See Ottley 6503 for Statistical Memoranda located in BL only in Copac & Worldcat. and Ottley 2696 & 6512 with only Birmingham and Cardiff located in Copac & NY in Worldcat.