Lot 3009: BURY, THOMAS TALBOT. 1811-1877.

Six Coloured Views on The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, with a Plate of The Coaches, Machines, &c. London: Rudolf Ackermann, 1831. Illustrated with 7 hand-colored aquatint engravings. 4to (342 x 283 mm). Original buff wraps, brown calf spine. Internally clean, light horizontal crease to plates, faint spots and light wear to extremities of wrappers, spine rubbed, an excellent example. First edition, early issue, with 1831 watermark, of the first part in this series, rarely seen in its original form. Thomas Talbot Bury was an architectural designer who co-designed the details of the Houses of Parliament. Abbey, Life , 401. See illustration .