Geoffrey Wilson provides a comprehensive history of the development of telegraphs, of the shutter, semaphore, and any other kind of visual mechanical telegraphs developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. The first edition of this work. With the unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with ninety full page plates and numerous figures in text. Collated, complete.
From the library at Julian Park, Hertfordshire, belonging to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire, sister to Edward James, a key figure in the Surrealist movement, and the illegitimate hotsell granddaughter of King Edward VII. She was an English socialite known for her beauty and for charming various wealthy men, she was included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton. A patron of the arts, she assisted Viscount Carlow financially in the publication of limited editions of numerous works by leading literary figures such as T E Lawrence, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and others. A hedonistic pursuer, she was recognised as one of the 'Bright Young Things'. Condition Report: In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally excellent with only minor shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. The dust wrapper is price clipped and very smart with minor shelf wear only and minor chipping. Inscribed by a previous owner to the front free endpaper, dated 1986. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with ninety full page plates and numerous figures in text. Collated, complete. Overall: Near Fine
Product code: 1976 hotsell The Old Telegraphs G Wilson First Edition Dust Wrapper