A treatise on carriages : comprehending coaches, chariots, phaetons, curricles, whiskies, &c: together with their proper harness, in which the fair prices of every article are accurately stated . reckoned the firft chargeor rule to follow; the wheels, the boots, thecoach-boxes, the raifed hind or fore ends, theblocks for the fprings, and alfo the painting, areadded afterwards j fo that, in whatever mannerthey are completed, their value may be afcer-tained. The additions to two-wheeled carriages arevery few above what are reprefented in the plate :the platform and budgets behind the dafliing-le
A treatise on carriages : comprehending coaches, chariots, phaetons, curricles, whiskies, &c: together with their proper harness, in which the fair prices of every article are accurately stated . reckoned the firft chargeor rule to follow; the wheels, the boots, thecoach-boxes, the raifed hind or fore ends, theblocks for the fprings, and alfo the painting, areadded afterwards j fo that, in whatever mannerthey are completed, their value may be afcer-tained. The additions to two-wheeled carriages arevery few above what are reprefented in the plate :the platform and budgets behind the dafliing-leather, and the odds of double Heps before, arethe principal of the additions, and which are par-ticularly mentioned hereafter. THK PRICE OF CARRIAGES. 67 5*^ ^ >^ ft O ft a -^ ft 3 3 Q- P(KJ 3 3 a, O-ft fv s ^ ? .* S-IS ft P ?0 ft ft 3 3 *-t t: o ?< ^ O ;a H? O Co w HO ^ > ? ? si. ft CL. ^ ? r5 • £r ^ sr o[:1ft S 5- £5^ — D- ft O .^ ft Hrt g^U> St 3 &3 CA 3,.i« I H o 5 o3 5 TJ - (V ?- o- •-t 3 ^ 3 O ft R? I 1 0 <ft 1 ^ -f- to 4 «-i V*J ^^ 00 (M 0 vyi ( 3 w <J4 »^ • p- 0 0 0 ( 3 0 0 0 ?-. b3W O p o O 7) \> • o Co F 2 CARVING, 6S CARVING. CARVING. THIS art contributes more effedually thanany other part of the work to the beauty andelegance of a town or (late carriage. In com-mon carriages, all that is meant by carving, andwhich fcarcely deferves the name, is the finifh-ing the ends of the timbers with fcrolls, and theedges with mouldings. If any carving is bellow-ed on thofe plain carriages, it is on the blocksor raifers, whofe front views are more confpi-cuous than any other timbers, and requires fomedegree of fancy to reduce their bulk to anyagreeable appearance. The only perfons at variance with this art arethe coachmen, who, from the greater difficulty ofcleaning after ufe, refent the extra trouble theyare put to, and with the mop and brufli endea-vour to deflroy thofe ornaments with which thecarriage is beautified. On carriages for com
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