English Pleasure Carriages

Language: English

Published by Adams and Dart, Bath, Somerset, 1971

0239000730 / 9780239000736

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First published in 1837, this is a first facsimile edition of 1971. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top of page block dyed pale green as issued, price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a nice copy. 315pp, illustrated. William Bridges Adams (1797 -1872), was an author, inventor, coachbuilder and locomotive engineer. He is best known for his patented Adams Axle, a successful radial axle design in use on railways in Britain until the end of steam traction in 1968. He also invented the railway fishplate. His writings covered all forms of land transport. Later he became a noted writer on political reform, under the pen name Junius Redivivus (Junius reborn), a reference to a political letter writer of the previous century. Jack Simmons (1915–2000), who wrote the Introduction to this book was an English transport historian, and emeritus professor of history at Leicester University.

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Title
English Pleasure Carriages
Author
Adams, W. Bridges. With an Introduction by Jack Simmons
Publisher
Adams and Dart, Bath, Somerset
Publication year
1971
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0239000730
ISBN 13
9780239000736
Edition
1st Edition
Printing
1st Printing
Dimensions
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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