The Story of the Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer

First abridged edition in handsome binding. Heavily textured, pebble grain, green cloth boards titled in gilt to spine are notably very good. Brown endpapers clean and fresh. Small label to rear pastedown reads, ‘Bound by Edmonds & Remnants London’. Very slight spine slant. Light spotting to preliminaries, frontispiece and title page. Text block otherwise clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout. 356 pp. plus index and advertisements. Printed by W. Clowes and Son. A lovely copy of the biography of George Stephenson abridged by the author from the original larger work.