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BEFORE THE BICYCLE
THE REGENCY HOBBY-HORSE PRINTS
GESCHREVEN DOOR ROGER STREET

HET BOEK IS GESIGNEERD DOOR DE SCHRIJVER !

Dit is niet zomaar een boek voor historici die geinteresseerd zijn in fietsen om in hun bibliotheek te hebben. Het is een panorama van prachtige, kleurrijke en soms ontdeugende prenten waar iedereen van kan genieten.

The hobby-horse velocipede was all the rage in the spring and summer of 1819, dozens could be seen at any one time in London and elsewhere. This was the earliest form of personal transport on wheels, pre-dating the bicycle by more than forty years. The machine’s novelty ensured that it was of very general interest, but in some places it was ridiculed, particularly when ridden by the smart young gentlemen of the day, The Regency dandies. The Prince Regent himself owned four hobby-horse vélocipèdes.
In only a few months, some eighty hobby-horse prints were produced by a variety of artists and publishers, some depicting the hobby-horse and its derivatives in a favourable light, others gently mocking the craze. For the very first time this book displays colour reproductions of all the hobby-horse prints for a twenty-first century spectator to view, with an explanatory note for each print.

Het boek is nieuw, zachte kaft, 173 pagina’s, Engelse tekst.

ISBN : 978-0-9532722-2-6

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Vintage Motor Cyclebooks