Appendix to Railway Practice, Containing a Copious Abstract of the Whole of the Evidence Given Upon the London and Birmingham, and Great Western Railway Bills . (etc)

vii; (ii); 373 + 4 (advert) pages, Folding frontispiece plate, plus 5 plates inc. folding. Contemporary green cloth rebacked with the spine relaid, corners knocked. Light foxing mainly to prelims. With a glossary of technical terms, used in civil engineering . the details of Hawthorne's celebrated locomotive engine. Witnesses called included George and Robert Stephenson, I. K. Brunel, Dionysius Lardner, etc. "This Committee came to the conclusion that the promoters of the Bill had not made out a sufficient case to warrant the forcing of the proposed Railway through the lands and property of so large a portion of dissentient land owners and proprietors." A most fascinating and invaluable study into early railways. The plates represent details of one of four locomotive engines, (No. 244) being constructed for the Paris and Versailles Railways . by Messrs. R & W. Hawthorne.