A practical treatise on coach-building, historical and descriptive : containing full information on the various trades and processes involved, with hints on the proper keeping of carriages, &c.
A trade manual on coach-building by James W. Burgess, published in London by Crosby Lockwood in 1881 for carriage makers, painters and heralds' painters. Wood-engraved plates mix hatched sectional diagrams of axles, hubs and joints with interlaced monogram cyphers and scrolling foliate ornament drawn for painting on carriage panels — useful as monogram alphabets, flourish motifs and cutaway mechanical drawings.
