British Mountain Climbs

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Box Bound, with 18 Illustrations and 21 outline drawings showing the principal routes. First edition, bound in publishers folding and closing red cloth box, gilt titles to upper board and spine, edges rubbed. Internally, half title, frontis, [4], (v-xvi), [1], 2-448 pp, 18 photographic illustrations and 21 outline drawings, upper hinge strengthened, board edges repaired, evidence of bookp[late removal to fpd. The design was for travelling and is the less common of printings. Basically a guidebook but readable as a history. Abraham, a mountain photographer, pioneered many rock-climbs in the Lake district, often with his brother and O.G. Jones. He also climbed in the Alps and other parts of Britain." (174*112 mm). (Neate A02).