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private collection:-
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Road book, road maps and itineraries, Bacon's Up-to-date Cycling Pocket Road
Book of England and Wales, published by G W Bacon and Co, 127 Strand, London,
1900s.
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The road book includes, as well as advertisements which are dispersed through
the volume - title page, contents, introduction, list of routes from London,
road map of England and Wales, documented separately; list of cross routes;
rates for cycles on railways, definition of a mile, lighting up times; 185 pages
of itineraries, which give distances from start and a few hotels, no route
descriptions; and an index to places.
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inscription:- |
printed -on- cover
Bacon's / 'UP-TO-DATE' / Cycling Pocket / Road-Book / OF / ENGLAND / AND
WALES / Price 1s. / Cloth Gilt, / 1s.6d. / LONDON: G. W. BACON & CO., Ltd., 126,
STRAND.
-- black on red; gentleman cycling a safety bicycle |
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dimension:- |
wxh = 7.5x15.5cm |
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Map Group -- Bacon 1900s -- with Research Notes
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| MN: 27.4.2003 |
