Brooklands: The Complete Motor Racing History

A smart limited edition of this illustrated history of motor racing. Revised and expanded edition. Limited to two thousand copies of which this is number 1885. Scarce work. Illustrated throughout. A comprehensive history of the famous Brooklands Motor Course at Weybridge, the world's first purpose-built 'banked' motor racing circuit and one of Britain's first airfields. Covering the construction of the course as well as twenty-eight seasons of motor racing, with reference to record-breaking and speed testing. Written by William Boddy, a British journalist who was the editor of Motor Sport. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Some pages subject to sticking. Near Fine.