Description
English Pleasure Carriages
W Bridges Adams
First published in 1837
This copy ia a 1971 reprint
Hardback in a good dust jacket
9″ X 6″, 315 pages, illustrated with drawings and plates,
This book is a classic guide to the English horse-drawn carriage.
William Bridges Adams was himself a coach-builder, and it is with first-hand knowledge that he describes the different kinds of vehicle, discussing the materials with which they were built and the various methods of construction.
He also provides a picture of the men who built them, and of their early trade union.
He was writing at the moment at which carriages had attained their greatest perfection, and when they were on the point of being superseded, to a great extent, by the railways.
A fascinating in-sight to the trade.
