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BURY, Thomas Talbot.
Coloured Views of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with Plates of the Coaches, Machines &c.
“A later edition with the plates re-engraved [many of them with significant changes] was issued in 1833” (Tooley). “This book was first published with six plates in 1831. It proved popular, and other editions followed…This classic record of the beginnings of the railway age was also one of the last significant books illustrated with aquatints. Lithography was already sweeping the field for pictorial records of this kind” (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England).
- Published
- London: R. Ackermann and sold by R. Ackermann Jnr., 1831.
- References
- Abbey Life 400 cites an 1824 edition; Tooley 120; Bobins 623.
- Plates
- 15
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: R. Ackermann and sold by R. Ackermann Jnr., 1831.
- Ref
- 5174
Quarto, title, text, 13 hand-coloured aquatint plates with two extra folding plates of First and Second Class Carriages with the Mail & Wagons with Goods &c. Full tan calf with twin gilt fillet to boards, re-backed, red morocco title label to upper board, raised bands in gilt, motifs, and letters to compartments, inner dentelles in gilt, marbled endpapers. Coloured plates in order: 1. The Tunnel. 2. Entrance of the Railway at Edge-Hill Liverpool. 3. Excavation of Olive Mount four miles from Liverpool. 4. Viaduct across the Sankey Valley. 5. View of the Railway across Chat Moss. 6. Entrance into Manchester across Water Street. 7. Coaches &c. employed on the Railway. (No.1 The Northumbrian Steam-Engine &c. No. 2, 3 5 Carriages for Passengers. No. 4 Private Carriage. No. 6, 7 Carriages for Cattle). 8. Railway Office Liverpool. 9. Warehouses &c. at the end of the Tunnel towards Wapping. 10. Moorish Arch looking from the Tunnel. 11. Near Liverpool, looking towards Manchester. 12. Rainhill Bridge. 13. Taking in Water at Parkside (The station where Mr. Huskissonn fell). 14. A Train of the First Class of Carriage with the Mail / A Train of the Second Class for outside Passengers (folding plate). 15. A Train of Wagons with Goods &c. / A Train of Carriages of Cattle (folding plate).
