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Stage-Coach and Mail in Days of Yore: A Picturesque History of the Coaching Age
by Charles G Harper
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
A$288.90A$260.01
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About This Item
London: Chapman & Hall, 1903. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 5.5". Various . The first edition of Charles G Harper's pictorial history of the coaching age in two volumes. 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. 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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- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 855A35
- Title
- Stage-Coach and Mail in Days of Yore: A Picturesque History of the Coaching Age
- Author
- Charles G Harper
- Illustrator
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1903
- Size
- 9" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- coaching age illustrated books charles g harper transport illustrated books
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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