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Modern Cycles. A Practical Handbook on their Construction and Repair -
A. J. Wallis-Tayler
1897 - Crosby Lockwood and Son, London - First Edition
A fine and rare first edition of one of the earliest works on cycling to feature such technical details, including the machinery required to produce various bicycle designs.
Including a history of the cycle, and chapters on ‘Modern Safety Bycicles or Dicycles’ and ‘Modern Tricycles or Three-Wheeled Cycles’.
Profusely illustrated throughout with 304 in-text drawings and lithographs, and one folding plate to the rear.
The author, Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, was an engineer, who ran an inspection and technical drawing company with two offices in London, he was also a prolific author of engineering and design related works.
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Price HK$ 5,000
1897 - Crosby Lockwood and Son, London - First Edition
A fine and rare first edition of one of the earliest works on cycling to feature such technical details, including the machinery required to produce various bicycle designs. Including a history of the cycle, and chapters on ‘Modern Safety Bycicles or Dicycles’ and ‘Modern Tricycles or Three-Wheeled Cycles’.
Profusely illustrated throughout with 304 in-text drawings and lithographs, and one folding plate to the rear.
The author, Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, was an engineer, who ran an inspection and technical drawing company with two offices in London, he was also a prolific author of engineering and design related works.
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Price HK$ 5,000