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The Raleigh Cycle Co. Ltd. Special Australasian Edition cover title
1898ref. 127356Nottingham: The Raleigh Cycle Co. Ltd 1898. Fair. Nottingham The Raleigh Cycle Co. Ltd. 1898. Oblong octavo 16 pages with numerous illustrations 10 pages each contain a large illustration and detailed information about individual models of bicycles two of them tandems. Saddle-stapled as issued; rusted staples no longer present resulting in minor stains and trifling loss; some marks and light stains throughout but generally inoffensive; a decent copy. The recto of each leaf is ink-stamped 'J. Mullins. Manufacturer & Importer of Bicycles 84 Pirie St Adelaide. Branch at Commercial Road Port Adelaide'. Retail prices for all but the tandem models are added in ink: they range from just over £20 to £32. To put these figures into perspective on Saturday 19 February 1898 'The Advertiser' classifieds offered for sale a four-room cottage 'with paved yard shed &c.' in Adelaide itself for £200 and a house with 'five rooms verandahs &c.' in inner-suburban Stepney for £300. The Raleigh Cycle Co., Ltd unknown
