Rock-Climbing in Skye

Description

Published by Longmans Green, London, 1908, 1st UK Edition, some foxing especially prelims and first pages beyond the title, tear to map sleeve inside rear cover but map fine, very slight bumping to corners, apart from the foxing A Fine Bright Copy.

IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY:  Signed by the author.  The front endpaper has the owners name ‘A.G. Abraham, Kirby House, Cockermouth’ and the dedication ‘With love from Ashley P. Abraham (“Dad”)’.  It also includes a postcard of Wastwater and Great Gable which appears to be in the hand of Ashley Abraham.

Ashley Abraham (1876-1951) was a climber, author and photographer who produced the final volume of the classic Jones-Abraham trilogy to be published, following on from Rock-Climbing in the English Lake District (1897) by Owen Glynne Jones (1867-1899) and Rock-Climbing in North Wales (1906) by Ashley’s older brother George D Abraham (1872-1965).  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.   With 30 full-page, tissue-guarded illustrations in collotype, nine diagrams of the chief routes and map in the pocket of the rear board.