Rock Climbing in North Wales

Description

Published by G.P. Abraham, 1906, 1st Edition, two bookplates on front endpapers, top edge gilt, slight wear edges, interesting pencil annotations from a previous owner who had also ticked off many of the routes listed in Abraham’s introduction, A Sound Nr Fine Copy.  Illustrated by 30 full-page monogravure illustrations, 10 pen-and-ink sketches and 11 outline drawings of the chief routes.   George D. Abraham (1871-1965), along with his younger brother Ashley P. Abraham (1876-1951), were rock climbers, authors and photographers based in Keswick in the Lake District.  They were responsible, along with Owen Glynne Jones,  for producing the classic Jones-Abraham trilogy of Rock-Climbing in the English Lake District (1897) by Owen Glynne Jones (1867-1899), Rock-Climbing in North Wales (1906) by George and Ashley, and Rock-Climbing in Skye (1908) by Ashley.  The Abraham brothers and O.G. Jones did much to develop and popularise rock-climbing in the Lake District, North Wales and other parts of the British Isles.