The Lives of George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles - 1975

The Folio Society, 1975. Hardcover. Good. 1975. No Edition Remarks. 304 pages. No dust jacket. Green with gilt lettering. Full colour frontispiece. Contains in-text monochromatic illustrations throughout. No slipcase. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Mild crushing to spine ends.

The Folio Society, 1975. Hardcover. Good. 1975. No Edition Remarks. 304 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Green illustrated cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains colour illustrations. Slipcase. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Slipcase has moderate edge wear with markings to panels and scuffing to edges.

The Folio Society, 1975. Hardcover. Good. 1975. No Edition Noted. 304 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated green cloth with a colour illustrated frontis and plates throughout. Comes in a brown slipcase. Minor tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Binding is loose with mild tanning to text block edges. Boards have minor rubbing and light bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends. Slipcase has visible sunning and splitting to joints. Visible bumping to corners.

The Folio Society, 1975. Hardcover. Good. 1975. No Edition Remarks. 304 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Slipcase. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Slipcase has moderate edge wear with markings to panels and scuffing to edges.

The Folio Society, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. 1975. No edition remarks. 304 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. No slipcase. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

The Folio Society, 1975. Hardcover. Good. 1975. No Edition Remarks. 304 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Beige slipcase. Colour illustrated plates. Pages are bright and clear with light tanning to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild sunning, staining and scuffing overall. Spine has light sunning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Slipcase is moderately scuffed and torn.

London: Folio Society. Fine in a Near Fine Slipcase. 1975. reprint. hardcover. 8vo . 304pp .

London: The Folio Society, 1975. 1st thus . Hardcover. Fine. No ISBN supplied. Intro: Eric de Mare. Pioneering railroad engineers.Based on the author's last revision of 1874 b/w repros, color plates. fine, deep green cloth w/ paste-on, tight. Near fine slipcase 304 pgs

GB: Folio Society, 1975. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. In nice clean sound slipcase. . 1st Thus. Hardback. nrFine/No DW.

Folio Society, London, first printing, 1975. Hardback. Good. SELLER'S DESCRIPTION - 396 pages including coloured plates from contemporary prints, the end-papers similar; publisher's bottle-green cloth ruled, titled and decorated gilt with a small plate laid down on the front cover; grey grained slip-case. CONDITION