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A new guide to stage coaches, waggons, carts, vessels, &c. for 1831. Being a list of all the inns in London where stage coaches and waggons put up and set out from, with their respective days and hours: also the names of the carriers, the places they go to, and the inns they go from. Likewise a list of coasting vessels, barges, and boats, with the wharfs, keys, &c. at which they lie for the reception of goods and passengers. Also rates of carriage, hackney coaches, and porterage, and a correct list of all the mail coaches, with their respective routes. The whole being corrected annually, is designed as a guide for merchants, tradesmen, and others, who have occasion to send goods into the country. The twenty-ninth edition. By B. Critchett.
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[New guide to stage coaches. 1831]
A new guide to stage coaches, waggons, carts, vessels, &c. for 1831. Being a list of all the inns in London where stage coaches and waggons put up and set out from, with their respective days and hours: also the names of the carriers, the places they go to, and the inns they go from. Likewise a list of coasting vessels, barges, and boats, with the wharfs, keys, &c. at which they lie for the reception of goods and passengers. Also rates of carriage, hackney coaches, and porterage, and a correct list of all the mail coaches, with their respective routes. The whole being corrected annually, is designed as a guide for merchants, tradesmen, and others, who have occasion to send goods into the country. The twenty-ninth edition. By B. Critchett.
London (Place), printed for the proprietor, by Richard Gray Gunnell, (printer in ordinary to his Majesty,) and William Shearman. And sold by J. Richardson, Sherwood and Co.; Simpkin and Marshall; Parbury, Allen, and Co.; Poole and Edwards; Black, Young, and Young; and by all the other booksellers in the United Kingdom,, [1831].
x, [2], 150 p. ; 17.5 cm. (12º)
The price is given at the foot of the imprint as '1s. 6d. sewed'. First published in 1803, and available separately or bound in a single volume with The Post Office London directory, the Guide was eventually incorporated into it from 1839. See separate entries for other editions in Soane's library: 1822, 1828--29, 1832--33. The final leaf of prelims is a blank.
Copy Notes Bound as issued with the copy of The Post Office London directory for 1831 (q.v.).
Binding Original C19th sheep, covers with blind roll-tool parallel to spine, blind double-ruled and dated spine.
Reference Number 4381
Additional Names B.$Critchett
[New guide to stage coaches. 1831]
A new guide to stage coaches, waggons, carts, vessels, &c. for 1831. Being a list of all the inns in London where stage coaches and waggons put up and set out from, with their respective days and hours: also the names of the carriers, the places they go to, and the inns they go from. Likewise a list of coasting vessels, barges, and boats, with the wharfs, keys, &c. at which they lie for the reception of goods and passengers. Also rates of carriage, hackney coaches, and porterage, and a correct list of all the mail coaches, with their respective routes. The whole being corrected annually, is designed as a guide for merchants, tradesmen, and others, who have occasion to send goods into the country. The twenty-ninth edition. By B. Critchett.
London (Place), printed for the proprietor, by Richard Gray Gunnell, (printer in ordinary to his Majesty,) and William Shearman. And sold by J. Richardson, Sherwood and Co.; Simpkin and Marshall; Parbury, Allen, and Co.; Poole and Edwards; Black, Young, and Young; and by all the other booksellers in the United Kingdom,, [1831].
x, [2], 150 p. ; 17.5 cm. (12º)
The price is given at the foot of the imprint as '1s. 6d. sewed'. First published in 1803, and available separately or bound in a single volume with The Post Office London directory, the Guide was eventually incorporated into it from 1839. See separate entries for other editions in Soane's library: 1822, 1828--29, 1832--33. The final leaf of prelims is a blank.
Copy Notes Bound as issued with the copy of The Post Office London directory for 1831 (q.v.).
Binding Original C19th sheep, covers with blind roll-tool parallel to spine, blind double-ruled and dated spine.
Reference Number 4381
Additional Names B.$Critchett