Samuel Smiles, 'Lives of the Engineers, with an account of t...

Hammer

£70

Samuel Smiles, 'Lives of the Engineers, with an account of their principle works; comprising also a history of inland communication in Britain', revised edition, 5 vols, marbled boards, gilt embossed titles, marbled endpapers, engraved portrait frontispieces to each volume, engraved illustrations throughout, John Murray, London 1874-1877 together with 'The Life of George Stevenson and of his son Robert Stephenson' and a facsimile of 'The Expedition to Funk Island with observations upon the history and anatomy of the great auk' (8)