Excerpt from A Treatise on Carriages: Comprehending Coaches, Chariots, Phaetons, Curricles, Whiskies, Together With Their Proper Harness, in Which the Fair Prices of Every Article Are Accurately Stated HE Art of coachmaking, within this left half century has arrived to a very high degree Of perfeetion, with refpeet both to the beauty, firength, and elegance of the machine: the con fequence has been, an increafing demand for that comfortable conveyance, which, befides its common utility, has now, in the higher circles of, life, become a dif'tinguifhing mark of the tafie and rank of the proprietor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.