Railways

Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of George Henry Gibbs, portrait of Gibbs and illustrations from paintings & plans of locomotives, index, viii & 96 pp, grey boards in slightly torn and rubbed d/w, otherwise good, Adams & Dart (Bath, Somerset) 1971

20.8 x 15.6 cm, 390g, ISBN 0 23900 088 9

Gibbs was one of the original directors of the railway, and the diary covers the period to 1840.  First published in the Great Western Railway Magazine in 1909-10, but deserves a wider audience.

See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flap.