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Leeds : Yorkshire Conservative Newspaper Co. (“The Yorkshire Post”), 1889. First edition. An absorbing account, with much on the early history, Doncaster, John Frederic Herring, Ferrybridge, Tadcaster, York, Easingwold, Thirsk, Northallerton, Boroughbridge, and especially Leeds – with much incidental local history and numerous illustrations by the author of old coaching inns and local landmarks.
Demy 8vo (22cm). (xvi),237,[iv],[1]pp. Illustrations almost throughout. Original pictorial red cloth gilt; just a touch dulled, a touch shaken, but a very good copy.

£100

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London : J.A.Allen & Co., (1984). First edition. The first full-scale study of the Victorian coaching painter, Charles Cooper Henderson, with notes of paintings in public collections, a list of all the known prints made from his work, etc.
Demy 4to (30cm). 122,[ii]pp. Numerous illustrations, over thirty in colour. Original cloth; a very good copy in the dust-jacket – the jacket also very good.

£20

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London : Longmans, Green & Co., 1876. First edition. A valuable and beautifully illustrated history of coaching – with chapters on most aspects of the history, the coaches and the roads, as well as “some road slang terms”. Illustrated with striking colour-printed plates (finished with hand colour) by Hanhart and woodcuts in the text. As well as Captain Malet’s own work, this edition also collects together for the first time all the “Nimrod” [Charles James Apperley] essays on the subject.
Foolscap 4to (24cm). (xvi),(404)pp. Errata slip. Coloured frontispiece and nine coloured plates. Woodcuts in text. Original pictorial cloth gilt; very lightly worn at spine tips and a little sunned; a few minor internal marks, nicks and slight creases, but a very good copy.

£200

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