The Rise and Fall of the Railway King por McCartney, S., Beckett, Ian, Arnold, A. J

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London: Hambledon and London. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 1852854014 . Fine blue cloth no inscriptions or marks. Near fine unclipped dust jacket. Already a wealthy businessman and Lord Mayor of York before the advent of the railways, Hudson seized the opportunity they presented with both hands. He became an MP, lived in style and entertained lavishly. While his early lines were profitable, later ones were not. Ever more deeply committed, at a time when accounting standards were lax, he hid inconvenient figures until brought down by a question at a shareholders' meeting in 1849. Disgraced, he fled to the Continent, his name synonymous with fraudulent capitalism at its most brazen. ; Black & white illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii + 317 pages .

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London : Hambledon and London, 2004. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Section of original dust wrapper mounted facing title page. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his bookplate to front pastedown. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 317 pages; xii, 317p. : ill., ports. ; 24cm. Subjects: Hudson, George 1800-1871. Capitalists and financiers - Great Britain - Biography. Railroads - England - Design and construction - Costs. Railroads - England - Biography. The building of the railways in Britain in the nineteenth century was the greatest ever industrial undertaking in the world to that time. Financed by private enterprise rather than the state, the schemes to build new lines were characterised both by their ambition and by their need for huge amounts of capital. The most ambitious of all… Ler mais