Description
Carriages and Coaches
Ralph Straus
First edition 1912,
Hardback no dust jacket
Ex Royal Borough Kensington Library
10″ x 6″, 283 pages + index, fully illustrated with reproductions from old prints, contemporary drawings and photographs
Blue cloth with gilt decoration of carriages and title to spine
Contents:-
1, The primative vehicle, 2, the age of litters, 3, The introduction of the coach,
4, interlude of the chair, 5, seventeenth century innovations, 6, early Georgian carriages,
7, the war of the wheels, 8, the age of transition, 9, inventions galore, 10, modern carriages
index,
