Lot 471: BURY, Thomas Talbot (1811-1877). Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, with

BURY, Thomas Talbot (1811-1877). Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, with Plates of the Coaches, Machines, &c. London: R. Ackermann, 1831. 4° (354 x 277mm). 13 hand-coloured aquatint plates by H. Pyall after Bury (occasional very minor discolouration and spotting). Red morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, wide gilt turn-ins, uncut. Provenance: W. A. Foyle (Beeleigh Abbey red leather gilt book-label).

FIRST EDITION of these fine plates by the eminent architectural designer, Thomas Talbot Bury who, with Pugin, designed the details of the new Houses of Parliament. cf. Abbey Life 400 (second edition); Tooley 121.

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