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Brightwell-cum-Sotwell: King of the Road Publications, 2024. Very well illustrated, tall quarto, pp 399, red cloth, a very good NEW copy in dustwrapper. Limited numbered edition of 400 copies, this copy signed by the author. A heavy book - extra postage will be needed. { The invention and popularizing of the bicycle was one of the many revolutions that affected the way people lived in the nineteenth century. After dark it was quite foolhardy to ride on unlit roads with stones and potholes ready to upend the unsuspecting cyclist, so the bicycle and tricycle lamp had to be invented. This book concentrates on just one company, Joseph Lucas of Birmingham. Peter Card's book describes and illustrates many of Lucas's wide varieties of lamps, as well as relating fascinating stories of business ethics and design blind alleys; it also includes many examples of the litiginous venom with which competitors often treated each other. An amazingly detailed work - the result of fourteen years research.].… Read More