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The Dover Road. Annals of an ancient turnpike ... Illustrated by the author, etc

HARPER, Charles George. · 1895 · Chapman & Hall · 65 pictures

Charles G. Harper's history of the London-to-Dover turnpike, written and illustrated by him and published by Chapman & Hall in London in 1895 for coaching antiquarians, cyclists and road travellers. The plates are pen-and-ink drawings of inn yards, high streets, hop-gardens and Kentish farm buildings, with line-hatched skies, small figures and captioned titles set below the image, useful for road-side architecture, signboards and open-air working scenes.

British Library · HMNTS 010349.i.9. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)