American Horse-Drawn Vehicles

This is a fantastic manuscript that provides a look at Victorian vehicles. Its 99 pages of photos and engravings include both commercial and private vehicles that range from the familiar American buggy to steam-pumper fire engines, with stops along the way at carts, gigs, spring wagons, rockaways, clarences, coupes, victorias, stagecoaches, and specialized business and haulage models. Each picture is reproduced clearly and sharply, with a brief explanatory caption, and there’s a useful complete index at the back. This is definitely a volume that social historians of the era will find indispensable.