The Great Western Railway Panoramic Guide:.
Recent blue paper wrappers.
£200.00
Publisher
London: Bemrose and Sons, 10, Paternoster Buildings; and Irongate, Derby. No date but,
Date
[1875].
Synopsis
A description of the principal objects of historic interest; sacred edifices, chief cities, towns, and villages; country seats, pleasure resorts, natural objects, engineering works, roads, rivers, canals, etc., inviting the attention of passengers over the main lines and chief branches of the great western railway.
Item Description
Folio. 48 pp. with large folding map, and engraving of the Great Western Hotel and Station.
Notes
An entertaining and informative booklet with an interesting format where a representation of the railway line being described, complete with trains, passes up the centre of each page, with Junctions, Tunnels, and each station encountered, with its distance from the London terminus. On the appropriate side of the line are descriptions of the principal objects of interest.
[Stock No. 19349]
