Stage Coach and Mail in the Days of Yore. A picturesque history of the coaching age. Vols 1 & 2

Notes:

An early popular account with chapters including: 'Introduction of carriages'; 'The horseman'; 'Dawn of the coaching age'; 'Growth of coaching in the eighteenth century'; 'The stage waggons and what they carried - how the poor travelled'; 'The early mail coaches'; 'The nineteenth century, 1800-24'; 'Coach legislation'; 'The early coachmen'; 'The later coachmen'; 'Mail guards'; 'Stage coach guards'; 'Going by coach - booking offices'; 'How the coach passenger fared - manners and customs on the road'; 'The later mails'; 'A journey from Newcastle to London in 1772'; 'A journey from London to Newcastle in 1830'; 'Accidents'; 'A great carrying firm - The story of Pickford & Co'; 'Snow and floods'; 'The golden age, 1824-48'; 'Coach proprietors'; 'The amateurs'; 'End of the coaching era'; 'What became of the coachmen'