Author: Abraham, George and Ashley.
Title: ROCK-CLIMBING IN NORTH WALES.
Description: G.P. Abraham, 1906. 1st Ed. xx + [i] + 394pp. + [iv]. publ. adverts. 30 plates, 10 pen and ink sketches, 9 outline drawings of routes. Annotations to contents, some light browning, hinges sprung before text, gilt lettered cloth, joints corners and spine rubbed, t.e.g. ¶ Neate A08 ‘His most important work, being the second part of the classic Jones-Abraham rock climbing trilogy. George Dixon Abraham (1871-1965), and Ashley Perry Abraham (1876-1951) photographers and rock-climbers. ODNB ’... In the 1890s the Abrahams produced the first photographs of climbers in action, which were soon in demand for illustrations for books and guides ... Around 1900 the brothers planned to produce a guide to Snowdonia but here they ran into obstructive secrecy and resentment over their intrusion into the area from the leisured classes who made up the majority of climbers in Snowdonia and looked down on the Abrahams, who were in trade. Nevertheless, [the above work] was published in 1906 ...’

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