HOME, Gordon. The Motor Routes of England … Western Section. London, A. & C. Black, 1911.
8vo. Original illustrated cloth, designed by Turbayne, top edge gilt; pp. xi, [3], 337, numerous plans and maps in the text, 16 colour plates, large colour-printed folding map at the end; cloth minimally marked; a very good copy.
~b~First edition of a rather uncommon motoring book by the colour plate publisher. Only four Motor Routes titles where published in this series, which was intended to contain more titles. 'The outbreak of the first world war put an end to these plans … Highlight of the books is Turbayne's magnificent cover design' (Inman pp. 75-6).
Inman 292.~i~
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