LIST OF PLATES 



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Coach and Horses. {From a photograph. Re-drawn by 

 Harry Finney) .... Frontispiece 



A May Morning in the Park. {From a painting by 



Thomas Eakins) i 



I. The London and Oxford Coach. Phototype of a Painting 

 by Cordery, 1792, showing the Basket, the Front 

 Boot attached to the Carriage-Part, and the Suspension 

 of the Body. {Reproduced by the kind permission 

 of Messrs DICKINSON &* Foster, New Bond Street, 

 London) . . . . . . . • .10 



II. Drawing of same Coach. {Half-inch scale, with trans- 

 parent sheet) . . . . ■ ■ ■ .11 



III. The Carriage-Part of a Coach in Isometrical Perspective. 



{Scale one-half inch to the foot) . . . .20 



IV. Phototype of Two Etchings from a Political Pamphlet of 



1766, showing Coaches of the period . . 71 



V. Phototype of a Print of Hogarth's, 'The Inn Yard,' 

 1747, showing a Coach with Passengers on Top, and 

 an Old Woman in the Basket. {One-half the size 

 of the original print) . . . . . ■ 7 2 



VI. Phototype of an Etching by Rowlandson, 1793. A 

 Coach with Two Extra Horses, ridden by a Postilion ; 

 the Traces of the Leaders attached to the Traces of 

 the Wheelers and not to Lead-Bars . . . -73 



VII. Mail-Coachby Guiet, 1892. Built for Mr W. G. Tiffany, 

 on the lines of the Old English Mail-Coach. Used on 

 the Trouville trip in July 1892. {Drawn to a half-inch 

 scale, with transparent sheet) . . . . .102 



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