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CARRIAGES & COACHES

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

BIOGRAPHICAL
ROBERT DODSLEY: POET, PUBLISHER AND PLAYWRIGHT
JOHN BASKERVILLE: A MEMOIR [with R. K. Dent]

NOVELS
THE PRISON WITHOUT A WALL
THE SCANDALOUS MR. WALDO
THE LITTLE GOD’S DRUM
THE MAN APART

PAMPHLETS
THE DUST WHICH IS GOD
5000 A.D.

CARRIAGES
& COACHES

THEIR HISTORY &
THEIR EVOLUTION
By Ralph Straus

FULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH REPRODUCTIONS
FROM OLD PRINTS, CONTEMPORARY
DRAWINGS & PHOTOGRAPHS

London: Published by Martin
Secker at Number Five
John Street Adelphi mcmxii

PRINTED BY
WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD.
PLYMOUTH

The State Coach of Great Britain

To
B. S. S.

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	THE PRIMITIVE VEHICLE	17
II.	THE AGE OF LITTERS	42
III.	THE INTRODUCTION OF THE COACH	56
IV.	INTERLUDE OF THE CHAIR	85
V.	SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY INNOVATIONS	109
VI.	EARLY GEORGIAN CARRIAGES	147
VII.	THE WAR OF THE WHEELS	176
VIII.	THE AGE OF TRANSITION	... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN! Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR!

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