8vo. 329 + (1)pp. Orig. cloth, rather worn. ffe loose, lacking back fe. A well-used copy of this scarce item and priced accordingly. Henry Field was the younger brother of Cyrus W.Field whose vision and perseverance saw the laying of the first Atlantic cable through to success. Henry thus had an intimate, first-hand knowledge of his brother’s struggle to achieve this extraordinary task and his book is the first devoted to Cyrus’ role. It takes the story down to the third attempt to lay the cable and is an extraordinarily detailed account. As such, it is a major source of information on the cable. This is the first edition, which was printed for private distribution only and is consequently scarce. Enlarged editions were published in 1867 and 1869, while the final, revised edition appeared in 1892.
GBP 250.00
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