Early Carriages and Roads

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GOING TO BURY FAIR.
From Engraving, A.D. 1750 .

BY SIR WALTER GILBEY, Bart.
ILLUSTRATED
London
VINTON & CO., Ltd., 9, New Bridge Street, E.C.
1903
The use of carriages, coaches and wheeled conveyances have had an intimate relationship with the social life of English people from an early period in history.
Many instructive books have appeared on the subject of carriages generally, but these have been for the most part written by experts in the art of coach and carriage building.