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Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore, Volume 1 (of 2) / A picturesque history of the coaching age

Chapter 3: List of Illustrations
By Charles G. Harper
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About This Book

A pictorial and historical survey tracing the development of wheeled travel from early carriages to the height of stage-coach and mail services, and their decline with the coming of railways. It examines practical and social dimensions: vehicle types and construction, coach naming and schedules, the roles of coachmen, guards, and booking offices, passenger manners and accommodations, and legislative and commercial changes that shaped operations. Illustrated with contemporary prints and anecdotes, the work blends technical description, institutional history, and everyday travel customs to reconstruct the logistics and culture of road travel in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER   PAGE
I. The Introduction of Carriages 1
II. The Horsemen 14
III. Dawn of the Coaching Age 57
IV. Growth of Coaching in the Eighteenth Century 87
V. The Stage-Waggons and what they Carried: How the Poor Travelled 103
VI. The Early Mail-Coaches 146
VII. The Nineteenth Century: 1800–1824 181
VIII. Coach Legislation 194
IX. The Early Coachmen 221
X. The Later Coachmen 231
XI. Mail-guards 249
XII. Stage-coach Guards 272
XIII. How the Coaches were Named 282
XIV. Going by Coach: Booking Offices 320
XV. How the Coach Passengers Fared: Manners and Customs down the Road 333

List of Illustrations

SEPARATE PLATES

    PAGE
1. The Maidenhead and Marlow Post-coach, 1782. (From a contemporary Painting) Frontispiece
2. The Stage-coach, 1783. (After Rowlandson) 83
3. The Waggon, 1816. (After Rowlandson) 115
4. The Stage-waggon, 1820. (After J. L. Agasse) 121
5. The Road-waggon: a Trying Climb. (After J. Pollard) 131
6. The Stage-waggon, 1816. (By Rowlandson) 137
7. Pickford’s London and Manchester Fly Van, 1826. (After George Best) 141
8. John Palmer at the Age of 17. (Attributed to Gainsborough, R.A.) 149
9. John Palmer. (From the Painting by Gainsborough, R.A.) 153
10. The Mail-coach, 1803. (From the Engraving after George Robertson) 169
11. John Palmer in his 75th Year. (From an Etching by the Hon. Martha Jervis) 175
12. Mrs. Bundle in a Rage; or, Too Late for the Stage. (After Rowlandson, 1809) 183
13. The Sheffield Coach, about 1827. (From a contemporary Painting) 187
14. The “Birmingham Express” Leaving the “Hen and Chickens.” (From a contemporary Painting) 191
15. “My Dear, You’re a Plumper”: Coachman and Barmaid. (After Rowlandson) 223
16. The Old “Prince of Wales” Birmingham Coach. (After H. Alken) 233
17. In Time for the Coach. (After C. Cooper Henderson, 1848) 243
18. Stuck Fast. (After C. Cooper Henderson, 1834) 267
19. The “Reading Telegraph” passing Windsor Castle. (After J. Pollard) 297
20. The Exeter Mail, 1809. (After J. A. Atkinson) 301
21. The Brighton “Comet,” 1836. (After J. Pollard) 307
22. Matthews’ Patent Safety Coaches on the Brighton Road 313
23. A Coach-Breakfast. (After J. Pollard) 349

ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT

  PAGE
Vignette (Title-page)
Preface vii
List of Illustrations xi
Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore 1
Arms of the Worshipful Company of Coach and Harness Makers 12
Epigram Scratched with a Diamond-ring on a Window-pane by Dean Swift 46
Old Coaching Bill, Preserved at the “Black Swan,” York 75
Old Birmingham Coaching Bill 81
Coaching Advertisement from the Edinburgh Courant, 1754 89
One of Three Mail-coach Halfpennies struck at Bath, 1797 173
Moses James Nobbs, the Last of the Mail-guards 265