The American Bicycler: A manual for the observer, the learner, and the expert.

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  • Boston:: Houghton, Osgood and Company,, 1879.
By Pratt, Charles E
8vo (6½x4¼"), [6], 211 + [4] ad pp. Illustrations in the text; frontispiece, original boards decorated & lettered in gilt. Worn, soiled, some aging, and stained; hinge split before title page, this copy lacks the plate that should face p.36; good. Scarce guide to all things bicycular, including the history, manufacture, mechanics, riding, laws and courtesies of the road, races, clubs, etc. In gilt on front cover: "Issued by the Pope Manufacturing Co., 87 Summer Street, Boston, Mass."

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