[Victorian bicycling ephemera.] Year card of the Byfield and District Cyclist Club, with 'Runs for 1892', 'Rules' and 'Rules for the Road, and Regulations for Meets', printed by Cheney & Sons of Banbury.

Nicely printed on both sides of a piece of 11 x 15cm card, folded once to make an 11 x 7.5cm bifolium, with the outer covers individual pages, and the internal double-page opening in portrait. The outer covers are blue, with a cloth weave; the internal opening is matte white. An attractive production, with the club's officers named on the front cover; the seven 'Rules' and 'Rules for the Road, and Regulations for Meets' in small type on the back cover, with the following poem at the foot of the page: 'The "Rule of the Road" is a paradox quite, | In riding or driving along; | Because if you turn to the left you go right, | And turn to the right you go wrong.' The double-page opening is a table in five columns headed 'RUNS FOR 1892.' It lists: Date; Destination; Miles, Light Lamps at; Start from', for 21 races. The first entry is: 'May 5 | Badby Bridge | 10 | 8.27 | Byfield'. The last is '[Sept.] 22 | Badby | 11 | 7.0 | [Byfield]'. From the archive of Cheney & Sons, 'General, Commercial & Artistic Printers, Banbury'. (John Cheney's calling card describes him as a 'Printer in Gold, Silver, and Colours', with 'Specialities in the best class of work.') 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.