Before the motor car there were four centuries of refinement on wheels, and Ralph Straus’s Carriages & Coaches tells that story with antiquarian relish: medieval chariots and whirlicotes, the coming of the coach, sedans and hackneys, the mail coach at its glory, and the carriage-builder’s craft at its height.
It is transport history with upholstery — the wheeled world the automobile displaced. Download the free EPUB and ride before the engine.