LONDON COACH AND CHAIR RATES
The Book of Coach-Rates; or Hackney-Coach Directory. Describing Above Four Thousand fares within the Cities of London and Westminster, and Limits of the Bills of Mortality; The Price of Each Fare being annexed; and the Exact Distance specified, according to an Accurate Measurement of the Ground. Alphabetically disposed...
London.
Printed for the Editior; and Sold by W. Owen et al., 1762.
First edition.
xii, 118pp. Without terminal blank leaf. ESTC N32380.
[Bound after:] [HENRY, David]. An Historical Description of the tower of london, and its curiosities... London. Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, 1778. iv, [1], 6-71pp, [1]. ESTC T86735.
[And:] [HENRY, David]. An historical description of St. paul's cathedral... London. Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, 1777. iv, 56pp. ESTC T102526.
[And:] [HENRY, David]. An Historical Description of westminster abbey, its monuments and curiosities... London. Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, 1778. iv, [1], 6-144pp. ESTC T194093.
12mo. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf. Without lettering-piece, rubbed, joints split - boards held by cords only. Very occasional light spotting, overall internally clean and crisp.
[Bound after:] [HENRY, David]. An Historical Description of the tower of london, and its curiosities... London. Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, 1778. iv, [1], 6-71pp, [1]. ESTC T86735.
[And:] [HENRY, David]. An historical description of St. paul's cathedral... London. Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, 1777. iv, 56pp. ESTC T102526.
[And:] [HENRY, David]. An Historical Description of westminster abbey, its monuments and curiosities... London. Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, 1778. iv, [1], 6-144pp. ESTC T194093.
12mo. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf. Without lettering-piece, rubbed, joints split - boards held by cords only. Very occasional light spotting, overall internally clean and crisp.
This rare compilation of 'above four thousand' rates for hackney coaches, and certain rates for hackney chairmen, watermen and carts, also features 'an Accurate Measurement of the Ground' between certain locations in London. According to the prefatory advertisement it is an antidote to the 'Impositions of Hackney-Coachmen...universally complained of'.
This copy is bound after three Carnan and Newbery guides to historical sites in London and Westminster; the whole forming a practical guide to both travel and destinations in the mid-eighteenth century capital.
ESTC locates only three copies in the UK (Kings College and two in Oxford colleges), and just three elsewhere (Huntington, Illinois and NYPL), and just a single copy of the second edition of 1770, at the BL.
£ 450.00
Antiquates Ref: 14205
This copy is bound after three Carnan and Newbery guides to historical sites in London and Westminster; the whole forming a practical guide to both travel and destinations in the mid-eighteenth century capital.
ESTC locates only three copies in the UK (Kings College and two in Oxford colleges), and just three elsewhere (Huntington, Illinois and NYPL), and just a single copy of the second edition of 1770, at the BL.
