Carriages & coaches
Subtitle: their history & their evolution
By: by Ralph Straus, fully illustrated with reproductions from old prints, contemporary drawings & photographs.
Publisher: Martin Secker
Published: 1912
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Horses.; Carriages and carts.
Other titles: Carriages and coaches :
Description: "In the present book there are, indeed, large gaps, and it is not to be taken either as a manual of the art of coachbuilding or as a history of locomotion. It is merely a book about carriages, in which particular regard has been paid to chronological sequence, and particular attention to such individual carriages as have at all withstood the test of social history. And it is written by a layman who, until he enquired into the subject, had never looked at a carriage with any particular emotion. The result of his labours, therefore, is not meant for the expert, but for the general reader, who may have pondered over the various vehicles he has seen, and idly wondered how they may have evolved."--Author's preface, page 14.