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Hard cover, 4to., in green cloth blocked with elaborate gilt cover in an amalgam of celtic, grolier style banding with areas filled with neoclassical foliage, laurel crowns and a central vignette with publisher's logo. Design gilt to both boards, more simple design repeated to the spine in gold, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Printed on heavy laid stock with halftone illustration from photographs as frontis and within. Titles in black and red. Printed at the Caxton Press, New York. x, 319 [1], 5pp. index. CONDITION: Very Good plus. Small rubbing to front board, very light wear to corners and very minor fraying at head of spine, crimping at foot. Front hinge with minor crack, rear is in order. Former owner name upon ffep. in fountain ink. Otherwise, some tanning at edges of text block but clean within. No shelf wear to lower edge.**Georgia-born Francis M. Ware (1824-1893) writes about the art of, and functional history of, carriage-driving and development of wheeled carriages, equestrian skills, stage coaches and sleighing in early America and England, and their importance to the development of trade and settlement. From buggies to broughams, cabriolets to country phaetons, four-in-hand to French chaises, and indeed everything you wanted to know about roadside rivalries. Indexed. (AMJ)
Ref: Horse 9750
$225.00