Traction Engines: Two Centuries of Steam Power

Inventory ID 657961. Laminated Hardcover 144 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 2000. Beautiful illustrated wraps on this laminated hardcover spotlights this tight and sound copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight with undamaged corners. Some bumps to boards. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with the usual shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Want to protect the book's dust jacket with a mylar cover? Add Biblio or ABEBooks listing 657791 or eBay item 176708421996 to your purchase.A detailed history of traction engines, the giants of the steam age, through both text and over 100 photos, color and black and white. From the inside front "In its glory days, the traction engine was an impressive machine. Powerful and versatile, its potential seemed endless and it was adapted to many task, from ploughing fields to lighting fairgrounds. It is doubtful that we shall ever see machines that combine such beautiful simplicity, elegant decoration and massive strength again. This book celebrates these giants of a bygone age, offering an in-depth and lively study of the development of the traction engine and an exploration of the political, commercial and technological context in which it evolved."Anthony Burton is an author and broadcaster who specialises in industrial and transport history.…