Various – Smiles (Samuel, 1812-1904), Lives of the Engineer...

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£80 - £120

Various – Smiles (Samuel, 1812-1904), Lives of the Engineers: Early Engineering, popular edition, London, John Murray, 1904, 8vo, xxxiv + 380pp, 6 plates and 49 line illus., Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, Sir Hugh Myddleton, Bt., Captain Perry, James Brindley with an appendix on Pierre-Paul Riquet, bound embossed red boards, gilt titles to spine; Smiles (Samuel, 1812-1904), Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie: Harbours-Lighthouses-Bridges, popular edition, London, John Murray, 1904 12mo, 459pp, frontis of Smeaton, 7 plans 78 line illus., label to inside cover Evans, Fraser & Co. Bombay, library sticker inside rear board, red embossed boards, gilt embellishments, gilt spine titles, spine tearing at top; Smiles (Sameul 1812-1904), The Story of the Life of George Stephenson including a Memoir of his son, Robert Stephenson, revised edn., London, John Murray, 1864, 12mo, 380pp, engraved frontis., illustrations, bound embossed red boards, gilt titles and spine titles, spine tearing at top); Blackburn (Henry), Randolph Caldecott: A Personal Memoir of His Early Art Career, 1st edn., London, Sampson Low, 1886 8vo, xvi + 216pp, 172 illus., gilt edges, gilt and black printed green boards, gilt spine titles (4)