The Rainhill Trials: The Greatest Contest in Industrial Britain and the Birth of Commercial Rail
Rare and modern books
Christopher Mcgowan
Little, Brown and Company,
2004
The Rainhill Trials: The Greatest Contest in Industrial Britain and the Birth of Commercial Rail
Rare and modern books
Christopher Mcgowan
Little, Brown and Company,
2004
4.95 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 2004
- ISBN
- 0316724807
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Christopher Mcgowan
- Publishers
- Little, Brown and Company
- Size
- 8.75 x 5.75 inches
- Edition
- First Edition
- Keyword
- Railways, History, Liverpool, Rocket
- Cover description
- Fine
- Binding description
- Hard Cover
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- Fine
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- True
Description
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 379pp. Taking place near Liverpool in 1829, this is the story of the competition to see whether a new form of propulsion, the steam locomotive could be made to satisfy the requirements of the fledgling Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company. The race was on between, Rocket, Sanspareil and Novelty.
