TREDGOLD, Thomas. The Steam Engine. Its invention and progressive improvement, and investigation of its principles and its application to navigation, manufacture and railways, London: John Weale, 1838. 2 volumes. 4° (290 x 230mm). 125 engraved plates including 2 portrait frontispieces. (Dampstain affecting preliminary leaves, frontispieces of both vols. and title of vol. I). Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving original spines). cf. Brunet V, 932: "Ouvrage très-important"; Lowndes 2709.