The horse-and-buggy may have gone away with the automobile, but you can revisit this lost world of tophats, carriage drivers, ostlers and roadside inns by reading W.O. Tristan’s delightful Coaching Days and Coaching Ways (London: Macmillan and Co., 1893), where the author takes readers on a lore-filled adventure across 19th century England’s highways and towns. And if you just want to look at the pictures by English illustrators Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson (whose birthday is June 1st, incidentally), you can click on the gallery below for all 199 illustrations.

Note: These images are in the public domain. For more information, see A Primer on Image Rights on OBA.

I—The Bath Road

II—The Exeter Road

III—The Portsmouth Road

IV—The Brighton Road

V—The Dover Road

VI—The York Road

VII—The Holyhead Road