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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b Visions of the Western Railways. [By R. E. A. Townsend.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Townsend, Richard Edward Austin; br/b/b 1838.br/b/b pp. 90, 36. 26 cm.br/b/b 11645.h.33.br/.…

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56 pp.; 30.7 x 24.1 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; July / August 1971 issue of Studio International. Edited by Peter Townsend. Contents include: "What is Reality? The Theme of Documenta 5," by Georg Jappe; "This Spring in West Germany," by Robert Kudielka; "Science in Art," by Marcello Salvadori; "Correspondence;" "News and Notes;" "Experimental Art: Stubbs to Sonfist," by Jonathan Benthall; "Sydney: Art in the Universities," by Donald Brook; "'True Patriot Love': Joyce Wieland at the National Gallery of Canada;" "Bridget Riley," by David Thompson; "Three Shows at the Hayward: Hodler and Böcklin," by Frank Whitford and "Henri Laurens," by William Tucker; "Letter from Bucharest," by Radu Varia; "A Tail of Two Exhibitions," by Barbara Reise; "Background to the Foreground: The Haacke Exhibition History," by Edward Fry and Thomas M. Messer; "Which is in Fact What Happened," Thomas M. Messer in an interview with Barbara Reise; "The Limits of Collecting," by Sir Norman Reid; "Three Early African Sculptures;" "Supplement: New and Recent Art Books" "Reviews," by Marth Haworth-Booth, Jonathan Benthall, Alan Bowness, Timothy Clark, Richard Cork, Peter Gidal, Andrew Higgens, Timothy Hilton, and Frank Whitford. Cover: Sketch for "Zing" 1970 by Bridget Riley. Very Good. Light rubbing and bumping of cover edges. 8 cm. vertical creasing to verso with 6 cm. of pencil writing on verso edge. Contents clean and unmarked.…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. First edition. The first edition of this very scarce privately circulated volume of poetry by Richard Edward Austin Townsend. A lovely copy of this very scarce privately published collection of poems, dedicated to the British MP and Baronet Sir Charles Lemon, who in the year prior to the publication of this work was appointed to serve on the Transportation Committee of the House of Commons, and was on the committee of management of the South Western Railway.The first forty-nine pages include a collection of short poems, followed by a collection of poems headed 'Thoughts on the British Association at Liverpool, 1837', which constitutes pages 51 to 90. The pagination then begins anew, with further short poems and verses following.A fascinating and very scarce volume of poetry about the railways, published during the early stages of the railway in England; in 1830, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened, establishing the pattern of modern railways. Rebound in quarter calf, with marbled paper covered boards. Endpapers renewed, retaining original blanks. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned to perimeters, but clean. Chipping to perimeters of first four leaves, all original blanks. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…

Half title. Orig. unlettered vertical-grained maroon cloth, blocked in blind; spine sl. faded, but overall a v.g. copy as issued. Small stamp on leading pastedown of the Cornwall County Record Office. Ottley 1168 & 7655. A scarce volume of romantic poetry, inspired by the coming of the railways to Cornwall and the West Country. One poem, The Lady of the Mount, imagines a noble youth keeping a promise to 'his sea-girt lady in St. Michael's Mount by gaining the night express on the Cornwall Railway', while another, Vision of the Reprieve, describes the hurried attempt of a locomotive engineer to deliver news of commutation to a young army officer condemned to death. Although several short railways within Cornwall were in operation from the early 1830s, the county was not connected to the rest of the English rail network until 1859 with the opening of the Cornwall Railway, which ran between Plymouth and Falmouth.…

Royal 8vo., First Edition; original plum ribbed cloth, boards with multiple frames in blind, backstrip with printed paper label, yellow endpapers, uncut, joints moderately rubbed (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PERIOD BINDING. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. Dedicated to Sir Charles Lemon [MP for Western Cornwall] and printed for private circulation, this is the first published collection of railways verse in English, comprising a collection of romantic verse inspired by the coming of rail to the West Country. Ottley 1168, 7655 [also listing a second, abridged version later in the same year]. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.…