Boat Trains And Channel Packets..
Bound in original green cloth, gilt, in the scarce pictorial dust wrapper, which is price clipped and has edge wear, including chips at head and tail of spine. A little foxing of edges and fly leaves, but otherwise a very good copy. Signature on first free endpaper.
£35.00
Publisher
Vincent Stuart Limited.,
Place
London
Date
1957
Synopsis
The english short sea routes.
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. 4to. 7.5 x 10 inches. xi + [i] + 218 pp.
Illustrations
Illustrated by coloured frontispiece, numerous maps and plans in text and section of photographic plates at end, pp. 173-218.
Notes
This remains the standard work on the subject, and the only one to bring the cross-channel steamers and the boat trains together in one volume, covering both Dover and Folkestone; very well illustrated.
[Stock No. 25183]
Subjects
19th Century • 20th Century • British • Channel • Coast • Commerce • Dust Wrapper • Engineering • English • Europe • First Edition • French • Kent • Maritime • Railways • Ships • Social History • Technology • The Sea • Topography