The railway companion : describing an excursion along the Liverpool Line : accompanined with a succint and popular history of the rise and progress of rail-roads : illustrated with several lithographic views / by a tourist.

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Tourist, The railway companion , MDCCCXXXIII [1833]

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Creator:: Tourist
Title(s):: The railway companion : describing an excursion along the Liverpool Line : accompanined with a succint and popular history of the rise and progress of rail-roads : illustrated with several lithographic views / by a tourist.
Published/Created:: London : Published for the author by Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, and James Fraser, 215, Regent Street, MDCCCXXXIII [1833]
Physical Description:: 46, [2] p., [5] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
HE3020.L48 R35 1833
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3494901
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Lithographs printed by E. Colyer.
NSTC, 2R1043
Final page is advertisement for "The disyntrechon," a "mechanico-graphicoramic view" of the railroad.
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 409
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Original pink paper wrappers bound in. Label on preliminary paste down: John Phillimore Collection.
Subject Terms:: Colyer, E. -- Printer.
Great Britain -- Guidebooks.
John Phillimore Collection -- Provenance
Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Railroads -- Great Britain -- Guidebooks.
Wilson, E. -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:: Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1833.
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