The nobleman and gentleman's director and assistant, in the true choice of their wheel-carriages : being entire new designs for travelling-coaches, post-coaches, landaus both open and close, chariots, post-chariots, calashes, post-chaises, phaetons, and other vehicles, &c. curiously hung on steel springs. Being a work of universal use, not only to gentlemen, but coach-makers and spring-makers in general. The wheels and axle-trees are made of a proper height, so as to enable the horses to draw freely and with the greatest ease; many a fine horse having been totally spoiled by going up great ascents, and all owing to fixing improperly the wheels and axis. The whole drawn from original designs, executed and correctly engraved on thirty-six copper plates.

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Title(s):: The nobleman and gentleman's director and assistant, in the true choice of their wheel-carriages : being entire new designs for travelling-coaches, post-coaches, landaus both open and close, chariots, post-chariots, calashes, post-chaises, phaetons, and other vehicles, &c. curiously hung on steel springs. Being a work of universal use, not only to gentlemen, but coach-makers and spring-makers in general. The wheels and axle-trees are made of a proper height, so as to enable the horses to draw freely and with the greatest ease; many a fine horse having been totally spoiled by going up great ascents, and all owing to fixing improperly the wheels and axis. The whole drawn from original designs, executed and correctly engraved on thirty-six copper plates.
Published/Created:: London : Printed for A. Webley, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, 1763.
Physical Description:: [2] p., 36 leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 38 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2009 38
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3591249
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Publisher's advertisement on verso of title page.
Engravings by Ignace Fougeron; after M. Meillian [i.e. Meillan?].
English short title catalogue, T101566
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in 19th-century gilt-tooled half calf and green cloth. Cased with: Treatise on the aeropleustic art. London, 1851.
Subject Terms:: Carriage and wagon making -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Carriages and carts -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800.
Coaching (Transportation) -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Engraving, Colored -- Specimens -- 1763.
Transportation -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Wagons -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Webley, A. -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:: Publishers' advertisements.
Contributors:: Fougeron, Ignace, active 18th century-19th century, engraver
Meillian, M., ill.
Webley, A., bookseller, publisher.
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