Library Record
Metadata
Author |
Malet, Captain. |
Title |
Annals of the road : or notes on mail and stage coaching in Great Britain |
Shelf Location |
Coaching |
Link to Scanned Copy |
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Summary |
Early coach-travelling, common stages and hackney coaches, stage- coaches in the eighteenth century, her majesty's stage coach, Napoleon's coach, roads and rate of speed, John Palmer and the mail coach system, regulations, further regulations, De Quincy on coaching, procession of mails on the King's birthday, use of the key bugle, work and wages of guards, driving clubs, dangers of the road, white horse cellar, Piccadilly, short stages, coaching in the north of England, Peter Pry's letter, coachmen, yards, Washington Irving's portrait of a stage-coachman, John Day, a pathetic ballad, Ascot, Great western road, coaching on May day, bearing reins, Brighton road, Sir John Fagg, ode to dragsmen, memories and regrets, on accidents, chapter on anecdotes, drive on the great western road, Mr. Jacob's invention, revival of coaching, retrospective, dawn of coaching, harnessing, poling-up and breeching, long and short wheel-reins, stanhopes and fashionable carriages, bearing-reins, fast coaches, and linch pins, on coachmen, B.D.C. and four horse club, on accidents, night work, lamps, roads, coaches, use of the whip, directions for driving, night work, coach horses, young horses, wages and coachmen, guards, gentlemen-coachmen, some road slang terms, insturctions for mail guards, names of roads, with the standards from which they are measured. |
Subjects |
1. Coaching--England. |
Search Terms |
Early coach-travelling, common stages and hackney coaches, stage- coaches in the eighteenth century, her majesty's stage coach, Napoleon's coach, roads and rate of speed, John Palmer and the mail coach system, regulations, further regulations, De Quincy on coaching, procession of mails on the King's birthday, use of the key bugle, work and wages of guards, driving clubs, dangers of the road, white horse cellar, Piccadilly, short stages, coaching in the north of England, Peter Pry's letter, coachmen, yards, Washington Irving's portrait of a stage-coachman, John Day, a pathetic ballad, Ascot, Great western road, coaching on May day, bearing reins, Brighton road, Sir John Fagg, ode to dragsmen, memories and regrets, on accidents, chapter on anecdotes, drive on the great western road, Mr. Jacob's invention, revival of coaching, retrospective, dawn of coaching, harnessing, poling-up and breeching, long and short wheel-reins, stanhopes and fashionable carriages, bearing-reins, fast coaches, and linch pins, on coachmen, B.D.C. and four horse club, on accidents, night work, lamps, roads, coaches, use of the whip, directions for driving, night work, coach horses, young horses, wages and coachmen, guards, gentlemen-coachmen, some road slang terms, insturctions for mail guards, names of roads, with the standards from which they are measured. Coaching |
Publisher |
Longmans, Green, and Co., |
Published Date |
1876. |
Published Place |
London : |
Physical Description |
403 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 1876. Nimrod is the pseudonym of J. C. Apperley. |
Catalog Number |
2017.CMA2.1053 |