The Hornby Book of Trains (1925)

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Cover of the first (1925) Hornby Book of Trains, showing LNER 1471 Sir Frederick Banbury

Cover of the first (1925) Hornby Book of Trains, showing LNER 1471 Sir Frederick Banbury [image info]

The Hornby Book of Trains first appeared in 1925, price threepence, with its front showing showing a green LNER A1-Class locomotive, 1471 Sir Frederick Banbury as a large image block set into a grey cover.

Identification

The book was undated, perhaps so that it could be kept in circulation for a while without seeming to go out of date, if no further issues were produced.

The impression that the 1925 issue was designed as a one-off was also strengthened by its ambitious decision to use the "editorial" section to attempt to describe and illustrate the entire history of the steam locomotive.

However, the experiment clearly was a success, because more issues started appearing, yearly.

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