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Horse-drawn Carriages and Sleighs: Elegant Vehicles from New England and New Brunswick | 
 enlarge | Authors: Peter Dickinson, Richard Wilbur
Creator: Brian Atkinson
Publisher: Formac
Category: Book
Buy Used: $61.88
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 3447232
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 72
ISBN: 0887806163
EAN: 9780887806162
ASIN: 0887806163
Publication Date: October 22, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Excellent customer service. Order inquiries handled promptly.
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Product Description
For many years some of the finest craftsmen throughout North America laboured in factories large and small to produce carriages and sleighs. This book celebrates their skills and artistry.
This full-colour book presents the full range of vehicles they produced: carts, carriages, sleighs, buggies and slovens -- from the very grand opera bus to the functional ox wagon. The text looks at design developments, the variety of usage and technological details.
This book draws on one of the finest collections of horse-drawn vehicles in North America, at New Brunswick's Kings Landing Settlement near Fredericton, with photographs were taken on site with animators in period costume and horses harnessed. It shows how the carriage-making industry in New Brunswick developed over time, relative to the development of roads.
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| Customer Reviews:
Stunning Photographs July 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
(As this review is written, there is only one copy of this title available, and the asking price is astronomical. I suggest you keep checking back - it's a good book but not THAT good. I bought mine for under twenty bucks! Here's my review for a more reasonably priced edition):
It's the excellent color photographs in this little book that make it a worth while purchase. All of the photos were taken at Kings Landing Historical Settlement in New Brunswick where the docents dress in period appropriate clothing, which puts the carriages in their proper perspective. Each picture of the carriages and sleighs are accompanied by the type of buggy, as well the period it is from. Sometimes the info includes the original prices.
The last quarter of this 72 page book is dedicated to the carriage makers themselves, including original 19th and early 20th century pictures.
From what I understand, all of the carriages presented here (except for the carriage maker pics) belong to Kings Landing. If this is the case, they have quite a collection, which makes me want to head up to the historic village and check them all out in person.
This is a very easy and quick read for anyone who has an interest in horse-drawn vehicles. The pictures alone are worth the money.
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