Visions of the Western Railways. Dedicated to Sir Charles Lemon
TOWNSEND], [Richard Edward Austin
AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST PUBLISHED RAILWAY POETRY IN ENGLISH
Published: Samuel Bagster, 1838
Stock code: 51618
Price: £295.00
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.