Price: £65
Subject: Travel & Topography
Published Date: c. 1900
Stock Number: 74992
(Cycling.)
The Cyclist's Route Map of England and Wales.
Description: map printed in red and black, a few small holes at crease crossings, some toning to recto advertisements, map 63.5 x 78cm, folded 11.1 x 20cm, publisher's decorative red cloth wrappers, front cover printed in blue and brown with illustration of cyclists, winding track, and distant sea, rear cover with pictorial advertisement for Swift cycles, ownership inscription 'Dursley Rectory, Glos', good
Publication Details: Office of the Bazaar Exchange & Mart, c. 1900
Notes: An attractive example of this popular cyclist's map, produced for the London market, with 30 road routes from the capital marked in red, and market towns marked with their mileage distance from London. With numerous illustrated advertisements for bicycles (Haddon, Juno, Hornsey etc.) including the bamboo cycle, cycling costumes ('Rain but NOT Air Proof') and horse-skin cycling shoes.
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