The Autobiography of a Stage Coachman. [2 volumes]

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1904 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First limited edition. One of 500 copies. 2 volumes. Small quarto. Pp. xvi, 253 + xii, 250. Illustrated with 41 hand-colored aquatint plates, 1 sepia portrait plate, 2 woodcut text illustrations. Three-quarter dark green morocco, light green cloth sides, top edges gilt. Some minor staining to fixed and free endpapers of volume II. Two tissue guards stained at fore-edge (not intruding onto plates). A fine, handsome set with all the plates bright and clean.A penciled notation at the rear of volume I indicates that the binding was provided in 1905. The exquisite hand-colored aquatint plates are after paintings executed by Pollard, Cooper, Havell, Henderson, Rowlandson, Alken, et al. This work is considered to be the finest work on British stage coaching..