[CR]Re: Library Cycling Book

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:52:58 -0800
From: "Jonathan Botkin" <jbotkin@powerlight.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, mike richardson <felice@abts.net>
References: <CATFOODIIhs6hdn1KVH000008e0@catfood.nt.phred.org>
Subject: [CR]Re: Library Cycling Book

Mike,

The Badminton Library contained volumes about many different sports including fishing, fencing, horseback riding, cricket, hunting, etc. The Cycling volume was published in the 1880's and 90's. A new edition was brought out each year, I believe, though some years are very similar. Some of the editions are harder to come by than others. Many of the editions feature wonderful line drawings by Joseph Pennell, a popular illustrator of the time and also a cycling enthusiast from Philadelphia. Viscount Bury also did some of the illustrations as well as editing. The other editor, G. Lacy Hillier, was a well known cycling journalist of the time and author of many cycling books. These books are not extremely rare, though I suppose prices have gone up. I purchased a copy about 10 years ago for $45, and there are almost always a couple of copies for sale at the Copake auction each year. I found three for sale on-line today, though they were all over $100. I think they can still be found cheaper than that. They are a wealth of information about cycling in the late 19th century. They are worth looking at just for the illustrations.

I hope this is useful information and not too off topic for the list.

Jonathan Botkin


> Message: 5
> From: "mike richardson" <felice@abts.net>
> To: "classicrendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:45:41 -0500
> Subject: [CR]Library Cycling Book
>
> While in Winston-Salem today, I stopped in at the Wake Forest Univ. =
> library to take another look at some books I had seen there years ago. I =
> copied the title and a few details of a 19th century cycling manual to =
> see if the historians in the crowd or British list members are familiar =
> with this.
>
> CYCLING by Viscount Burly K.C.M.G. and G Lacy Hillier, published by =
> Longmans,Green & Co. 1887
>

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> Anyone familiar with this?