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A Comparative Account and Delineation of Railway Engine & Carriage Wheels.
John Weale, Architectural Library, 1848.
Scarce early study of the development of railway engine and carriage wheels. First edition, first printing. 8vo. 52pp. Black original publishers boards & original yellow title label to front board. Rebacked with black buckram spine. Large folding hand coloured chart of wheels. A very good copy with light wear to boards. Internally complete with edgewear to large folding map with some old repairs and a number of closed tears [some longer] - it has also been historically conserved by new reinforced cloth tape holding the oversized chart to the binding of the book opposite the titlepage. Heavy dusting to titles. Original yellow endpapers with splitting & some light edge marginalisation. Some pencil notes on blank panels at rear of map for folding purposes o/w no inscriptions.
A particularly interesting survey of the competing wheel designs developed during the formative years of the railway age. The text gives individual accounts of numerous engineers, inventors and manufacturers - the index identifying those whose designs are illustrated by engravings [on the chart]. Among those represented are George Stephenson, William Losh, Sir George Cayley, Robert Stephenson & Co, Daniel Gooch, R. Roberts, W. B. Adams and many others. Illustrated with one exceptionally large folding engraved comparative plate, commplete as issued, displaying a remarkable succession of railway engine and carriage wheel designs. The individual figures are identified by designer or inventor and frequently by patent date, with elevations, sections and constructional details shown alongside; selected elements are picked out contemporary hand colour. The plate therefore forms a stiking visial counterpart to the individual engineers and designs discussed throughout the text.
Item #103805
Price: £495.00