A Climbers’ Guide to Snowdon and the Beddgelert District

DescriptionPublished by Burrup Mathieson & Company, London, for the Climbers Club, 1926, 1st Edition, spine faded and worn, stains on boards, boards creased, unusually this copy is bound upside down, black-and-white photos, maps and diagrams, Poor.   Signed on front endpaper by ‘HRC Carr’ (but in crayon and not a verified signature).   Herbert Carr (1896-1986) had a lifelong passion for mountaineering and was a member of the Alpine Club, Rucksack Club and Climbers Club, saw active service in two world wars, and published a number of books on mountaineering.  The production of this volume, the third in the series of Climbers’ Guides to the Snowdon region, followed the earlier Climbs on Lliwedd (1909) by Archer Thomson and Andrews, and Climbing in the Ogwen District (1910) by Archer Thomson.