BADMINTON LIBRARY.

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Cycling. First edition, number 170 of 250 large paper copies. This compendium was written by William Coutts Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle, and George Lacy Hillier. Keppel notes that riding the tricycle and bicycle, whether by women or by men, "is by far the most recent of all sports" represented in the series.The Badminton Library, a series of sporting books which aimed to cover comprehensively all major sports and pastimes, was conceived by Longmans, Green & Co. and edited by Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (1824-1899). For each sport, the editors chose authors who were authorities in their fields. The series was named after the Duke of Beaufort's principal country house, Badminton in Gloucestershire.Volumes were available in three formats: the trade edition in illustrated brown cloth; the deluxe edition in blue half morocco; and the large paper deluxe edition, limited to 250 copies, also in blue half morocco.

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