num_pages: 128
description: This photographic survey is richly illustrated with images of one of the world's largest private collections of bicycles from the 1850s to the 1950s and includes some never-before-published photographs. From antique high wheelers and boneshakers to tandems tricycles and circus clown bikes it proves a fascinating historical retrospective of the bicycle's development and evolution. Gil King is a writer editor and photographer whose work has appeared in many national publications.
language: English
title: The Bicycle: Boneshakers, Highwheelers and Other Celebrated Cycles
publisher: Courage Books