Printed prospectus, with separate leaves of testimonials and illustration, for shares in 'The Universal Railway & Carriage Spring Company, Limited

The prospectus is folio, 3 pp, in a bifolium. Loosely inserted is a folio leaf, with the testimonials printed on one side, and a quarto leaf with four engraved illustrations: two of wheels under carriages, and two showing details of the springs on those wheels. The three items are on aged paper, with the illustrated leaf in good condition, and the other two items with chipping and closed tears. The texts and illustrations of all three items are clear and complete, apart from some loss to a footnote to the testimonials, caused by the page being printed too low on the leaf.. According to the prospectus 'THIS Company is being formed for the purpose of purchasing and working off the Perry Green Gardiner Patent Elliptic and Spiral Spring, for Railway Carriages and Waggons and Road conveyances, and an improvement therein granted to A. J. Dobson and R. Cook, a class of spring which must, before long, supersede the oldfashioned, heavy, and expensive kind of spring now in general use.' The description covers a full folio page, the last page being a 'form of application for shares'. There are eight testimonials.