INVENTORY #120095
Railways and Other Ways
PENNINGTON, Myles
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Title continues: "Being Reminiscences of Canal and Railway Life During a Period of Sixty-Seven years; With Characteristic Sketches of Canal and Railway Men - Early Tram Roads and Railways - Steamboats and Ocean Steamships - The Electric Telegraph and Atlantic Cable - Canada and Its Railways, Trade and Commerce, with Numerous Incidents and Anecdotes, Humorous and Otherwise, of Canal, Coach and Rail." The author, described as "the oldest railway officer living, still in active service" was apparently 80 when his book was published.
Publication Info
- Publisher: Williamson & Co
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1894
- Place Published: Toronto
- ISBN: n/a
Details
- Condition: Very good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
xix, [2], 22-407 p., interspersed with plates. 22 cm. 43 b&w plates. Rebound in burgundy cloth with original covers laid overtop. Gilt impressing on front cover. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown.