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.
- Author: Thomas Haines Jun. (Firm)
- Title: Thomas Haines Jun. fly waggons to London … [graphic].
- Publication: [Cheltenham] : S.Y. Griffith & Co., copper plate printers, [182-?]
- Manufacture: [1824?]
File 66 824 T457+
Acquired August 2023
A group of etchings of 18th century French carriages, based on English designs, from a set issued in six series (A-E) containing six prints each. Each etching provides side and back views of the carriage as well as a schematic of the undercarriage, the parts of which are labeled with letters and explained in text along the left edge of the plate.
