Rev Boyes (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to the boards, undated.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 16mo; pp; 152, plus an inserted 16pp. Woolmer Catalogue at rear; illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven additional black and white plates; pictorial blue cloth lettered in gilt and black with a decorated spine; Owner's name on a preliminary with an 1883 acquisition date; some light wear to the corners and edges, but a bright clean copy of a handsome book. Uncommon in this imprint.

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.

Cloth Boards. Cr. 8vo., pp. 197, prev. owner's inscr., very foxed at e.ps, title pg. & latter end pages, uncut top edge, or. cl. bds., marked, split cnrs, some holes, very worn. N.d. (1873). Scarce.

Decorative Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. viii + 152 (including 12 full page single sided illustrations), undated c1886. Condition; Decorative dark blue binding very good, minor edge wear, Gilt, black & blind embossed lettering & designs. Contents Very Good, inside front is the author's gift inscription hard to read all words, to "Mrs --- with the kindly --- of the Author, Sheffield July 1886", page 148 was folded centre & corner tip. Otherwise almost mint. Size: 11 x 16.5cm Approx. Signed " From Author".