Telle fut la couverture de notre premier numéro en 1891 — L’Officiel du cycle, 6 October 1951, Le Cycle No. 1

From L’Officiel du cycle, du motocycle et du camping, 6 October 1951, the paper’s special number for the 1951 Paris Salon du Cycle et du Motocycle and its 60th anniversary, page 9: a facsimile of the cover of the paper’s first number, Le Cycle, No. 1, 29 August 1891. The reproduced cover is transcribed in full.

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1e Année
No 1
Samedi 29 Aout 1891

Le Cycle

ORGANE HEBDOMADAIRE SPÉCIAL DE LA VÉLOCIPÉDIE

Paraissant
TOUS LES SAMEDIS

RÉDACTEUR EN CHEF
L. BAUDRY DE SAUNIER

ABONNEMENTS
FRANCE
UN AN.. 12 fr. | SIX MOIS.. 7 fr.
UNION POSTALE
UN AN.. 13 fr. | SIX MOIS. 7 fr. 50

Prix du Numéro
25 centimes.

SOMMAIRE
Notre rallye-paper. — Le tourisme nouveau : L. Baudry de Saunier. — La bicyclette tandem contre la bicyclette : Leader. — Vélocipédie militaire : R. de Kérandantec. — Echos. — Nouvelles inventions (le pneumatique increvable) : Gédez. — Conseils pratiques : Un Ancien. — La fabrication des cycles : Henri Mercier. — Sport. — Jeux cyclistes : Vélodor. — Boîte aux lettres.
NOS GRAVURES : Giboulée de mars. — La triplette nautique. — Le pneumatique increvable. — Encartage : Paris à Dunkerque (8e partie : Arras à Dunkerque, 112 kil.).

A. LAHURE, Imprimeur-Éditeur : 9, Rue de Fleurus, PARIS

Telle fut la couverture de notre premier Numéro en 1891

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[A full-page facsimile, in halftone, of the cover of « Le Cycle » No. 1, Saturday 29 August 1891, set in a thin ruled frame with the 1951 caption in italic serif beneath. The 1891 cover is framed in a dark border: the title “Le Cycle” in large swelling white letters outlined in black over a ground of interlocking spiral ornament; a twisting ribbon carries “ORGANE HEBDOMADAIRE SPÉCIAL DE” and a scroll “LA” to a white panel with “VÉLOCIPÉDIE”. Below, an engraved scene of cyclists on safety bicycles riding down a wooded lane toward the viewer, the foremost in a cap and dark jersey bent over the bars, others behind him and one standing with his machine at the left; a cyclist in a racing jersey is framed at the right edge. A white panel at the right holds the publication, editor and subscription lines with small typographic ornaments; a sprig of foliage spills across its foot. A scroll banner at the bottom carries the contents in small italic and roman type, above a band of interlaced oval ornament and the printer’s line in a bar along the foot. Signed “E.LOEVY” at the lower left of the scene, beside the cyclist, with a small mark beneath it (perhaps a date, too small to read). Matter on the reverse of the sheet (the heading “LES DEUX STANDS DE L’OFFICIEL” and running text) shows through faintly around the facsimile and through it; it is not part of the record. No library stamp.]