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Tales of the Trains : Being Some Chapters of Railroad Romance
by Tilbury Tramp, Queen's Messenger
Modern facsimile reprint of the 1857 edition.
Softback.
viii, 127 pages, illustrated
A compilation of humorous and fictitious stories taking place on board trains in England in the mid-Victorian era. Tilbury Tramp was a pseudonym of Charles James Lever, (1806-1872), an Irish editor and writer whose novels, set in post-Napoleonic Ireland and Europe, featured lively, picaresque heroes.
Very good condition.