Lives of the Engineers. The Locomotive – George & Robert Stephenson (1874) – Samuel Smiles

Only one in stock – This is an 1874 John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, FIRST EDITION of the ‘Lives of the Engineers: George & Robert Stephenson (1874)’ and considering this book is nearly 150 years old, it is in excellent condition.  full leather bindings with gilt decorations including ‘Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis’ emblem embossed on front cover.

This book was a Sydney Grammar School prize for 1876 when it was awarded to H. D. Crocker.  It was also awarded to P. M. Crocker in 1937 ‘for safe keeping’ (please see photographs).  There is a pencilled notation an inside page, ‘Sydney Grammar Prize 1876’

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