Red cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and gilt title and black coach images on the front board.

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Chronicle of the Coach: Charing Cross to Ilfracombe, By John Denison Champlin Jr., Illustrated by Edward L. Chichester, Charles Scribner s Sons, New York, 1886, 298 pp, red pictorial cloth.

John Denison Champlin Jr. (1834-1915) was a nonfiction writer and editor from the United States. As an editor, he worked in journalism and graphic arts. In 1884 he visited Europe and accompanied Andrew Carnegie in a trip by coach through southern England. He later became editor of Scribner’s ‘art cyclopedias’.