![]() | 1722 An Act for the amending the Highways leading from Brampton Bridge, near Church Brampton in the county of Northampton, - through the Parish of Thornby, to a bridge called Welford Bridge in the Parish of Welford... H.M.S.O. 14pp. Clean. | £12.00 |
![]() ![]() | A COACH PAINTER The Coach Painters Hand-Book & Guide Henry J. Drane (1896) 132pp + coloured frontispiece and plate + advertisements. 1st ed., clean in original mustard cloth, front hinge slightly cracked. Very scarce. | £95.00 |
![]() | ADDISON Sir William Old Roads of England B. T. Batsford (1980) 167pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. | £6.00 |
![]() | ANON Execution of MacLean, Commonly Known by the Name of the Gentleman Highwayman. Sold by S. Hazard, Bath (1795 (circa)) 22pp. Clean in worn paper covers with stain on front cover and wear to edge. 4¼ x 7" Very scarce. | £165.00 |
![]() ![]() | BAINES F.E. On the track of the Mail-Coach. - Being a volume of reminiscenses personal and otherwise. London (1895) vi + 351pp. 1st ed., very fine in original decorative cloth. Seldom seen work on stage coaching in Britain. | £50.00 |
![]() ![]() | BATEMAN J. The General Turnpike Act, 3 Geo. IV, cap.126, with an Appendix of Forms and the Standing Orders of both Houses of Parliament with respect to private Road Bills., etc., to which are added, and Index and Notes. London, Printed for the Associated Law Booksellers (1822) xvi + 189pp + 2pp publisher's list. Mostly clean in contemporary half calf. | £45.00 |
![]() ![]() | BEAUFORT Duke Of Driving ; By His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, With Contributions by Other Authorities - Badminton Library. Longmans, Green & Co (1901) 416pp + plates. 5th ed., clean in original pictorial cloth. Guide to history of stage coaching in Britain with attractive line drawings. | £20.00 |
![]() | BEAUFORT Duke Of Driving ; By His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, With Contributions by Other Authorities - Badminton Library. Longmans, Green & Co (1889) 426pp + plates. 1st ed., inscription on half title, clean in original pictorial cloth. Guide to history of stage coaching in Britain with attractive line drawings. | £30.00 |
![]() ![]() | BLEW W.C.A. Brighton and its coaches. - A history of the London and Brighton road with some account of the provincial coaches that have run from Brighton. John C. Nimmo, London (1894) xxi + 354pp + 20 colour plates. 1st ed., fine in old decorated half morocco binding with red cloth. Occasional tone spotting. 7 x 10.5" A fine work with lovely hand coloured plates from original watercolour drawings by J. & G Temple. | £120.00 |
![]() | BOVILL E.W. The England of Nimrod and Surtees. 1815-1854. Oxford Uni Press (1959) 188pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in worn D/W. Large section devoted to coaching also much on hunting and racing. | £18.00 |
![]() | BOVILL E.W. The England of Nimrod and Surtees. 1815-1854. Oxford Uni Press (1959) 188pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in original cloth. Former owner's name on f.e.p. Large section devoted to coaching also much on hunting and racing. | £7.00 |
![]() | BRADLEY T. The Old Coaching Days in Yorkshire. Leeds (1889) xv + 251pp + ads. 1st ed., fine in worn original red pictorial cloth. A fine work illustrated with many line drawings by the author. Much on the old coaching inns. | £30.00 |
![]() | BRYANT R.M. Turnpike Roads and Riots. New Mills History Notes No 7 (1984) 56pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £8.00 |
![]() | BURKE Thomas Travel in England. - From Pilgrim and Pack horse to light car and plane. B.T. Batsford (1942) vi + 154pp + plates. 1st ed., some tone spotting mostly confined to page edges, clean in damaged D/W. Many B & W and a few colour plates. | £4.00 |
![]() | CARY J. Cary's new itinerary: - or, an accurate delineation of the Great Roads, both direct and cross throughout England and Wales; with many of the Principal roads in Scotland. From an actual admeasurement made by command of His Majesty's Postmaster General, for Official Purposes; Under the direction and inspection of Thomas Hasker Esq., Surveyor and Superintendant of the Mail Coaches. London (1806) 3rd ed., complete with folding map and advertisment for Globes at rear in original quarter calf binding with marbled boards, rebacked. The large folding map torn and repaired otherwise a clean copy. | £75.00 |
![]() | CLEAR Charles R. John Palmer (of Bath) Mail Coach Pioneer London Blandford Press in conjunction with The Postal History Society (1955) 109pp + plates. 1st ed., end papers toned otherwise clean in tatty D/W. | £10.00 |
![]() | COPELAND John Roads and Their Traffic, 1750-1850 David & Charles (1968) 205pp + plates. 1st ed., clean in D/W. | £15.00 |
![]() ![]() | CORBETT Edward An Old Coachman's Chatter with Some Practical Remarks on Driving Richard Bentley & Son, London (1891) 304pp + [3] + 8 plates. 1st ed., some light tone spotting mostly affecting the plates otherwise clean in worn original pictorial cloth. | £40.00 |
![]() ![]() ![]() | CROSS Thomas The autobiography of a stage coachman. Kegan Paul, Trench, Thrubner & Co (1904) 2 vols. 253 + 250pp + 41 colour plates, one uncoloured and 2 wood-cuts in text. 1st ltd. ed. of 500 copies. Fine in old Bayntun half morocco binding, all edges gilt. Very fine hand coloured aquatint plates after paintings by Pollard, Cooper Henderson, Rowlandson and Alken, etc. | £600.00 |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | CROSS Thomas The autobiography of a stage coachman. Kegan Paul, Trench, Thrubner & Co (1904) 2 vols. 253 + 250pp + 41 colour plates, one uncoloured and 2 wood-cuts in text. 1st ltd. ed. of 500 copies Very fine in original decorated green cloth, spines rather dull. Very fine hand coloured aquatint plates after paintings by Pollard, Cooper Henderson, Rowlandson and Alken, etc. Considered by many to be the finest work on stage coaching. | £400.00 |