Ray, Right you are.... I have a (what I believe to be) first edition Patterson book from the late 1940's. It's not one of the later reproductions. All of the drawings are B&W line drawings. I got this some time ago from the noted collector Lorne Shields.
http://www.phsc.ca/
I am grateful to Lorne for the many unique and special books/tomes I was able to purchase over the years from him.
Here's to Frank and Lorne!!
Matthew Gorski
Belmont Shore,
California USA
>From: Ray Green <greenjersey@talktalk.net>
>Date: 2007/04/04 Wed AM 07:19:56 CDT
>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: [CR]Frank Patterson
>I have found a 1984 article by Peter Knottley, who if I remember
>correctly wrote touring articles illustrated by Patterson drawings, in
>which he writes:-
>"Frank Patterson was exclusively a black and white artist, using simple
>pen and ink and securing tone without "wash" relying on superb penwork."
>I have read that Patterson did his work from postcards and photographs
>seldom leaving his Sussex farmhouse but Knottley writes that in his
>early years Patterson was a cyclist.
>Ray Green, Harrow, Middlesex