Bacon 1910s B
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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.
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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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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colophon: printed page 217
PRINTED BY NEILL AND CO., LTD., EDINBURGH. |
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