Book Description

To anybody interested in coaching as early transportation & the status of turnpike roads these two comprehensive volumes by Charles Harper, an authority on the subject, will provide a treasury of detail on the coaches themselves, the mail delivery service, the proprietors, legislation, the road network & even the accidents that were a constant risk for users & proprietors alike.
Author Charles G Harper
Date 1903 (First Edition)
Binding Red cloth over boards. Titles & motifs to spine & front cover on both volumes.
Publisher Chapman & Hall
Illustrator 'Illustrated from old-time prints & pictures'. Many examples in both volumes.
Condition G/VG (Slight fraying at top of spine Vol.1 & bottom of spine Vol. 2 ; acceptable colour fading on spines of both volumes)
Pages 360 + 368

Price: £78.00

Offered by Geoff Cox Books

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