The Cyclists' Touring Club Monthly Gazette And Official Record. Vol. Vii (New Series). January To December 1888. Inclusive Shipton, E. R., Editor

Shipton, E. R., editor. The Cyclists' Touring Club Monthly Gazette and Official Record. Vol. VII (New Series). January to December 1888. Inclusive. VG in Good binding. Blue cloth with gilt banding and lettering to spine. Covers are bumped to corners and damaged to head and base of spine, with various small marks and blemishes and a dent to front. Binding good. 452pp., with b/w illustrations. Index at the front. All the contents clean and bright. First published in 1878, in 1884, the journal was rebranded the CTC Monthly Gazette and Official Record under its new editor E. R. Shipton, the Secretary of the Club. This reflected the decision the previous year to rename the organisation the Cyclists' Touring Club to acknowledge not just high wheelers, but all cyclists, including tricyclists, many of whom were women. Local Government Act declared cycles to be 'carriages' with right to use the roads as a result of CTC action. Shipton's CTC Gazette went on to blossom in the craze years of the mid-1890s, a golden age for cycling, the CTC and cycling journals. The name of the publication was abbreviated to Cyclists' Touring Club Gazette in 1899, coinciding with the club's 21st anniversary and peak membership at 60,449. By 1900, from its origins as a humble circular, the CTC Gazette had matured into a well-respected cycling title, running almost 600 well-illustrated pages annually. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.