1904 The Autobiography of a Stage Coachman

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Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

A deluxe edition of this work, limited to only fifty copies, of which this is numbered twenty-eight. In a quarter vellum binding. Complete in two volumes. This deluxe edition contains each plate in duplicate, with both a hand-coloured aquatint copy and a monochrome copy of each plate. Volume I illustrated with a hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, a monochrome frontispiece, twenty-one hand-coloured aquatint plates, twenty monochrome plates, and two in-text woodcuts. Collated, bound without the additional monochrome plate for plate 17, facing page 215, with the hand-coloured aquatint plate present only. Otherwise, work is complete. Volume II illustrated with a hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, a monochrome frontispiece, twenty hand-coloured aquatint plates, and twenty-one monochrome plates. Collated, bound without the hand-coloured aquatint plate for plate 18 facing page 186, with the monochrome plate present only. Otherwise, work is complete. An interesting memoir about the era of horse drawn stage coaches being used for travel, written by Thomas Cross. As a stage coachman, Cross was able to observe his contemporaries in a different light, whilst they were travelling. As a result, this work offers a fascinating insight into the people and society of the nineteenth century. Illustrated by James Pollard, Robert Havell, C. Cooper Henderson, C. B. Newhouse, Thomas Rowlandson, and H. Alken.