in four sections, front cover opening to reveal a blue front piece with eye holes cut, label to centre 'THAMES TUNNEL, 1200 feet long, 76 feet below high water mark, was 8 years in building & cost £446000, opened the 25th day of march 1843', with Phillimore collection label dated 1943 to inside of front cover. Footnote: John Phillimore (1940) was the motoring correspondent for the London Times and an authority on the history of transportation. During the 1930s Phillimore built a large collection of historical items concerning railroads in great Britain. In 1943 his collection of books, pamphlets, letters, printed ephemera, and artifacts was broken up and sold at auction by Sotheby and Company.