A guide to stage coaches, diligences, waggons, carts, coasting vessels, barges, and boats : which carry passengers and merchandize from London, Westminster, and Southwark, to the different towns in Great Britain : describing the number of miles to each town, and the days and hours when the carriages set out from the inns, &c. in London and its environs : with an account of the several wharfs, quays, and stairs, where goods and passengers are usually received, and conveyed in coasting vessels, barges, or boats, to the different parts of the kingdoms : to which is now added an alphabetical list of the proprietors of the different waggons : also the rates paid to carmen for the carriage of goods : together with their orders and ordinances, as settled by the Lord-Mayor, &c. at a general quarter sessions of the peace, held at Guildhall, London : and likewise the rates of hackney coaches, chairmen, and watermen : with upwards of two thousand hackney coach fares : the whole useful to gentlemen, and designed as an assistant to warehousemen and shopkeepers, who send bales or parcels into the country.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lowndes, W. (William), bookseller.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London (England)--Commerce--Early works to 1800.

London (England).

Shipment of goods--England--London--Early works to 1800.

Shipment of goods.

Stagecoach lines--England--London--Early works to 1800.

Stagecoach lines.

Stagecoach lines--Timetables--Early works to 1800.

Transportation--England--London--Early works to 1800.

Transportation.

Genre:

Booksellers' advertisements.

Physical Description:

[2], 138, '139 140'-'141 142', 143-145, [5] pages ; 19 cm. (4to)

Fingerprint:

r-ni 'snd no,W Bran (3) 1787 (R)

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for W. Lowndes, no. 77, in Fleet-street, MDCCLXXXVII [1787]

Notes:

Signatures: pi1 A-R⁴ S⁶(S1+chi1)(-S6).

Pages '139 140'-'141 142' on a single folded leaf (chi1) inserted after page 138.

Bookseller's advertisement on leaves S3v-S5v.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center RBC 2026 50 purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2025 from Christopher Edwards. Bookseller's description laid in. Manuscript notes in dark and red ink on front pastedown; manuscript notes in dark ink on blank leaf following last printed leaf. Manuscript bibliographical notes in pencil on front free endpaper. Binding: modern half calf(?) over marbled boards; gold-ruled spine panels; gold-stamped red leather spine label ("LOWNDES GUIDE")

OCLC:

1581842839