[ Pamphlet; Leslie Stephen et al ] The Book of Sunday Tramps 1879-1951.

Author: 
Charles Dorée, compiler
Publication details: 
'Compiled by CHARLES DORÉE Doctor of Science, Chief Guide 1951'.
£380.00
SKU: 16445

20pp., 8vo, green printed wraps, sunned at edges, mainly good condition. Bookplate of The Authors' Club. With Foreword, list of Chief Guides (Leslie Stephen, founder, Thoby Stephen, Adrian Stephen), biography of Leslie Stephen (including peaks climbed), history and anecdotes, , Properties and Customs of the Sunday Tramps, Procedures, Notable Events, "Notes from the Black Book of Stephen", "Further Extracts from the Red Book", "Members of the Sunday Tramp (1879-1894)" (includes Stephen, Julian Hawthorne, etc.), "Members of the Sunday Tramps (1904-1951)" (includes J.M. Keynes, various Stephens, Erskine Childers, Vaughan William, William Rothenstein, Stanley Baldwin, with pencil notes in an unknown hand giving further information about individuals, crosses perhaps to indicate deaths). No women members. Only copies recorded are at HRC Texas and Aberdeen.