[Victorian bicycling ephemera.] 'Rules and Run Card' of the Bloxham Cyclists' Club, with 'Rules' and 'Club Runs', with engraving of frog on bicycle, printed by Cheney & Sons, Banbury.

Author: 
[Bloxham Cyclists' Club; Cheney & Sons, General, Commercial & Artistic Printers, Banbury]
Publication details: 
Bloxham Cyclists' Club. Cheney & Sons, Typ., Banbury. [1892.]
£35.00
SKU: 14813

4pp., 16mo (11.5 x 7.5 cm). Bifolium. Printed in black, within decorative red borders, on all four sides, with the outer covers grey and the internal pages white. In very good condition. A tasteful production, with the 'Officers, &c.' on the front cover, the twelve 'Rules' on the second page; 'Club Runs' on the third page (fifteen of them, between Wroxton on Wednesday 8 June [1892] and South Newington via Milcombe on Friday 29 July [1892]. Small vignette of a frog on a penny farthing centred on the back cover. From the archive of Cheney & Sons, 'General, Commercial & Artistic Printers, Banbury'. For more about the firm see 'John Cheney and his descendants, printers in Banbury since 1767' (1936) and the Victoria County History volume for the County of Oxford, Banbury Hundred.