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Cycling For Health And Points For Cycling – Frank Bowden (1913)
Front photo of author. Hardback – Blue illustrated cloth.
Condition is rather good, internal pages very clean. Some light foxing at edges & the odd mark to the cover as seen in photos.Pages 7-10 have a crease.
Frank Bowden is one of the most famous names in early British cycling, known for founding the Raleigh bicycle company and inventing the Bowden cable. This copy was owned by the Raleigh company at some point. Wikipedia has a great page about him, here is a paragraph I have copied below.
Frank Bowden was born in Devon, England, and made a fortune in property development in Hong Kong in the 1870s. In 1879, he married Amelia Frances, an American heiress. When he returned from Hong Kong he was seriously ill and his doctor gave him six months to live. Bowden took up cycling on his doctor’s advice and bought a bicycle from a small shop on Raleigh Street, Nottingham, run by Messrs Woodhead, Angois and Ellis. He was so impressed with his recovering health and the bicycle that in 1887 he acquired control of the company, which was then making three bicycles a week.
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