Brighton and its coaches :. a history of the London and Brighton Road, with some account of the provincial coaches that have run from Brighton /. by William C.A. Blew ; with twenty illustrations from original water-colour drawings by J. & G. Temple, all coloured by hand.
Blew, William C. A
Category
Books
Date
1894
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 3217202
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxi, 354 p., [20] leaves of plates :. ill. ;. 8vo. With a leaf of publisher's advertisements tipped in at start of volume. Pencil price: 21/- net. Provenance: inscribed "W.G. Lambarde from Uncle Frank 15th July 1899. the year I drove "Comet" Coach regularly fr. London to Brighton with Capt. Studs. Arthur Woodlands professional coachman [?] Stanley Carr as Guard." Provenance: ex libris book label of Debora Sylvester Jane Campbell of Jura [i.e. née Lambarde, m. Charles Graham Campbell (1880-), last laird of Jura, in1930]. Binding: publisher's blue cloth, black-ruled on boards; blind- and gold-embossed centrepiece illustration; gold-lettered on upper board and spine, gold tops.
Makers and roles
Blew, William C. A, author