BRADSHAW'S DESCRIPTIVE RAILWAY HAND-BOOK OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
Oxford. Published by Old Home. 2012. Facsimile Edition. Thick 8vo,512 pages in 4 sections, originally published in 1863,black & white illustrations and maps, original owners inscription to front pastedown.
Special Collectors' Edition.with the original belli band. "This luxury edition was bound in leather and printed on fine paper"
Very good hardcover, Item #196557
"George Bradshaw (1801-1853) was an English cartographer, printer and publisher. He is most famous for developing a series of railway timetables and guides. The books became synonymous with its publisher so that, for Victorians and Edwardians alike, a railway timetable was 'a Bradshaw'. After his death Punch magazine said of Bradshaw's labours: 'seldom has the gigantic intellect of man been employed upon a work of greater utility.'.
Price: $50.00