The Patterson Book 1st~2nd (Cycling Pen Drawings)

There is some soiling and discoloration due to age, but there is no damage or tearing whatsoever.
The cardboard outer box is burnt and dirty.

The first editions are from 1948 and 1952.

Frank Patterson
Born in 1871 in Portsmouth, a port town in England. From a young age, Patterson loved nature and sketching, and he studied painting at a local art school. Around 1890, he went to London to become a painter, but he was unsuccessful. For a while, he worked at an advertising studio, earning a living by drawing illustrations of furniture and buildings. In his spare time from this salaried life, he began cycling in the suburbs and villages on a bicycle, which was popular at the time. Soon after, his pen drawings sent to the magazine "Cycling" were recognized by the editor at the time, Walter Groves. After that, he continued to draw numerous pen drawings for almost every issue of the magazine, and later for the Cycling Tourist Club (CTC) magazine "CTC Gazette," for nearly 60 years. In 1906, he injured his knee and could no longer ride a bicycle, but his passion for pen drawings, based on photographs, materials, and memories, never waned. In 1934, he started a correspondence art school. In 1945, he was awarded the "Bidlake Memorial Plaque" for his long-standing contributions to cycling. In 1948, Temple Press published "Patterson's Book," selecting 150 works from the 5,000 works that had appeared in "Cycling," "The Motor," and "The Light Car" since 1893. He was also included in the cycling biographical dictionary "The Golden Book of Cycling." In 1952, he died at St. Richard's Hospital in Chichester, near his birthplace of Portsmouth, at the age of 81.
★ From the introduction by Bunyusha (the only publisher in Japan to publish Patterson's collection of paintings).

This book was purchased from Velo Publishing, which used to publish the magazine "New Cycling." I haven't ridden a bicycle in a long time, but when I turn the pages, I remember the early summer countryside, the lights of a post town mixed with light snow, and so on (although the time and country are completely different). I think I need to fix up my bicycle again.
You might even be able to see the landscapes of a foreign country from about 120 years ago, if you just start pedaling.