Stage-coach and mail in days of yore : a picturesque history of the coaching age . andlohose collections of coaching prints and notes Ihave largely used, this acknowledgment is J. B. Muir, of 35, Wardour Street, myobliging friend of years past, has granted extensiveuse of his collection of sporting pictures, and3Iessrs. Arthur Ackermann ^ Son, of 191, RegentStreet, have lent p)rints and pictures from their establishment. CHARLES G. HARPER. Peteesham, Sueeey,April 1903. CONTENTS ciiArxnii I. The Introduction of Carriages . II. The Horsemen .... III. Dawn of the Coaching Age IV. Growth o
Stage-coach and mail in days of yore : a picturesque history of the coaching age . andlohose collections of coaching prints and notes Ihave largely used, this acknowledgment is J. B. Muir, of 35, Wardour Street, myobliging friend of years past, has granted extensiveuse of his collection of sporting pictures, and3Iessrs. Arthur Ackermann ^ Son, of 191, RegentStreet, have lent p)rints and pictures from their establishment. CHARLES G. HARPER. Peteesham, Sueeey,April 1903. CONTENTS ciiArxnii I. The Introduction of Carriages . II. The Horsemen .... III. Dawn of the Coaching Age IV. Growth of Coaching in the Eighteenth Centur\V. The Stage-Waggons and what they Carried How the Took Travelled ... VI. The Early Mail-Coaches .... VII. The Nineteenth Century : 1800—1824 VIII. Coach Legislation IX. The Early Coachmen X. The Later Coachmen XI. Mail-guards XII. Stage-coach Guards XIII. How THE Coaches were Named . XIV. Going by Coach : Booking Offices .XV. How the Coach Passengers Fared: Manners AND Customs down the Road PAGE 1 14 5787 103146181194221231249272282320 333. SEPARATE PLATES PAGE 1. The Maidenhead and Maulovv Post-coach, 1782. {From a contemjwrary Faintiny) . Frontispiece 2. The Stage-coach, 1783. {After Kowlandson) . 83 3. The Waggon, 1816. {After Roivlandson) . • T15 4. The Stage-waggon, 1820. {After J. L. Agasse) . .121 5. The Eoad-waggon : a Trying Climb. {After J. Pollard) . . . .. -131 6. The Stage-waggon, 1816. {By Rowlandson) . 137 7. Pickfords London and Manchester Fly Van, 1826. {After George Best) . . . .141 8. John Palmer at the Age of 17. {Attributed to Gainsborough, ) ...... 149 9. John Palmer. {From the Paiuting by Gainsborough, ^-^•) 153 10. The Mail-coach, 1803. {Front the Engraving after George Robertson) . . . .169 11. John Palmer in his 75th Year. {From an Etching by the Uon. Martha Jervis) . . -175 12. Mrs. Bundle in a Page; or, Too Late for the Stage. {After Rowlandson, 1809) . . .183 xii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE 13. The Shef
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