Rock-Climbing in Skye

Description

Published by Longmans Green, London, 1908, 1st UK Edition, top edge gilt, very slight bumping to corners, A Fine Bright Copy.   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.