Phaeton and pair are stopped outside a town house, the box of the conveyance raised on an accordion-like mechanism to enable a lady to climb in from the second storey window. She is fashionably dressed with huge ostrich feathers in her enormous headdress, while the driver in laced coat and top boots extends a hand to help her. In the street below a man and woman with two children look on, as another couple look up in astonishment from the doorway of the house
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Carriages and carts, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Balconies, Horses, Wigs, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
An illustrated advertising handbill for Thomas Haines's fly waggons and fly vans, running from the Blossoms Inn in the City of London to the Royal Hotel Yard, Cheltenham. Illustrated with a vignette at head of a covered fly waggon driven by two men; and a vignette at foot of a fly van with driver at front and armed coachman at rear
Alternative Title:
Thomas Haines, Junior, fly waggons to London from the Royal Hotel Yard
Description:
Title from first line of text., Engraved text begins: Thomas Haines, Jun., fly waggons to London from the Royal Hotel Yard ..., Date of publication from watermark., Watermarked paper: Balston & Co. 1824., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
S.Y. Griffith & Co., copper plate printers
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Thomas Haines Jun. (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Carriages and carts, Advertising, and Carriages & coaches
