The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . London : CECIL PALMER Oakley House, Bloomsburv Street, First Published - 1892 Second Edition - 1906 Third and Revised Edit ion - 1922 Printed in Great Britain by C Tinling & Co., Ltd.,53, Victoria Street, Liverpool,and 187, Fleet Street, London. ]fREFUGE. MANY years ago it occurred to this writer that itwould bean interesting thing to write and illustratea book on the Road to Brighton. The genesis of thatthought has been forgotten, but the book zvas written andpublished, and has long been out of print. And theremight have been the en
The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . London : CECIL PALMER Oakley House, Bloomsburv Street, First Published - 1892 Second Edition - 1906 Third and Revised Edit ion - 1922 Printed in Great Britain by C Tinling & Co., Ltd.,53, Victoria Street, Liverpool,and 187, Fleet Street, London. ]fREFUGE. MANY years ago it occurred to this writer that itwould bean interesting thing to write and illustratea book on the Road to Brighton. The genesis of thatthought has been forgotten, but the book zvas written andpublished, and has long been out of print. And theremight have been the end of it, but that(from no preconceivedplan) there has since been added a long series of books onothers of our great highways, rendering imperativere-issues of the parent volume. Two considerations have made that undertaking amatter of considerable difficulty, either of them sufficientlyweighty. The first was that the original book was written PREFACE at a time when the author had not arrived at a settledmethod ; the second is found in the fact of the BrightonRoad being not only the best known of highways, but alsothe one most susceptible to change. When it is remembered that motor-cars have come uponthe roads since then, that innumerable sporting records in cycling, walking, and other forms of progression h
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