A practical treatise on rail-roads, and interior communication in general : containing an account of the performances of the different locomotive engines at and subsequent to the Liverpool contest : upwards of two hundred and sixty experiments : with tables of the comparative value of canals and rail-roads, and the power of the present locomotive engines / By Nicholas Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Nicholas, 1795-1865.

Contributor:

Morell, H., Mrs., former owner.

Yeager, Joseph, approximately 1792-1859, engraver.

Carey & Lea., Publisher.

Griggs & Dickinson., Printer.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Railroads--Early works to 1850.

Railroads.

Railroads--Great Britain.

Railroads--United States.

Physical Description:

xi, [2], x-xxvi, [27]-598, [2] p., [9] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First American, from the second English edition : with corrections, notes, and additions : also, an appendix, containing a detailed account of a number of rail-roads in Europe, and in the United States.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Carey & Lea : Griggs and Dickinson, printers, 1832.

Notes:

"Illustrated by numerous engravings."

Printer's statement from t.p. verso.

First [22] pages (not counted in collation) are publisher's advertisements.

Illustrations: 9 full plates, engraving. Eight out of the nine plates are numbered. Engraving by J. Yeager.

Signatures: [A] B 2-75.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: T.p. and p. [iii] are inscribed as: Mm. H. Morell.

Cited in:

Checklist Amer. imprints 17137

Thomson, T.R. Railroads, 691