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BURY (THOMAS TALBOT) Six Coloured Views on the London and Birmingham Railway, from Drawings Made on the Line with the Sanction of the Company, Part I all published, Ackermann & Co., 1837 image 1
BURY (THOMAS TALBOT) Six Coloured Views on the London and Birmingham Railway, from Drawings Made on the Line with the Sanction of the Company, Part I all published, Ackermann & Co., 1837 image 2
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BURY (THOMAS TALBOT)
Six Coloured Views on the London and Birmingham Railway, from Drawings Made on the Line with the Sanction of the Company, Part I [all published], Ackermann & Co., 1837

26 June 2019, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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BURY (THOMAS TALBOT)

Six Coloured Views on the London and Birmingham Railway, from Drawings Made on the Line with the Sanction of the Company, Part I [all published], 6 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Harris and others after Bury, repair in lower margin of plate 6, red crushed half morocco gilt by Bumpus, spine lettered in gilt within 2 raised bands, publisher's buff printed wrappers bound in, corners rubbed [Abbey Life 401; Tooley 122], 4to (352 x 290mm.), Ackermann & Co., 1837

Footnotes

A very good copy of "one of the rarest of English colour plate books" (Tooley), and the scarcest of Bury's railway books.

Provenance: Sir David Lionel Salomons, circular armorial bookplate.

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