By Charles G Harper
London   Chapman & Hall
9" by 5.5" xii, 360; xi, [1], 368pp.
The first edition of Charles G Harper's pictorial history of the coaching age in two volumes.
By Charles G Harper

1903 Stage-Coach and Mail in Days of Yore: A Picturesque History of the Coaching Age

London   Chapman & Hall
9" by 5.5" xii, 360; xi, [1], 368pp.
The first edition of Charles G Harper's pictorial history of the coaching age in two volumes.
£150.00
: 1.5kgs / : 855A35

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First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

A comprehensive history of the coaching days written by Charles G Harper, English author and illustrator.  The first edition, complete in two volumes. 

From the introduction of carriages to the end of the coaching age and what became of the coachmen. With final chapter concerned with the 'Old England of Coaching Days.' 

Illustrated from old-time prints and pictures. Collated, complete with frontispiece to each volume, sixty-one full page plates and further illustrations in text.

Condition

In the original publisher's uniform full cloth bindings. Externally very smart with light bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities, back strip gently faded. Minor faint damp mark to front board vol. I. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clen.

Very Good

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