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[EARLY AUTOMOTIVE] NORMAN, HENRY, Sir [M.P.] The Flowing Road. A record of the perfect holiday. An automobile journey through five c... . Autograph printer's manuscript for the March 1906 Scribner's Magazine article of the same title. Full dark green morocco by Zaehnsdorf, dated 1906, the corners of the covers tooled with a post-horn device within an ornamental frame, dark green silk endpapers, edges rough gilt. 8 x 4 3/4 inches (21.5 x 12.5 cm); approximately 240 ff., written on one side of the leaf in black ink on onionskin paper. Very light binding wear, the leather toned to chestnut especially on the spine. Sir Henry Norman was an early member of the Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland and often represented the interests of motorists in Parliament as an M.P. The present work is an account of a pioneering (and often hair-raising) account of early long-distance motoring. It was a lead article in Scribner's Magazine (March 1906), and Scientific American in 1912 (on the occasion of the publication of the same author's work on his travels in the Sahara) described this piece as "the best appreciation of the true charm of motoring ever written." Norman drove two American friends (in a car that he had purchased at their behest and expense) over alpine passes, the descents from which seem to have been fraught with peril. Sold together with a modern account of the dedicatee of The Flowing Road, Lucy (Mrs. Charles Hamilton Paine), touching on this journey. C Estate of Henriette Montgomery