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1908-35 British Sports and Sportsmen
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Description
Illustrated, Leather Binding, Limited Edition
A striking library set eleven volumes of 'British Sports and Sportsmen', of a total of seventeen volumes.
Each volume is a limited edition of one-thousand copies, with each volume in this set numbered ninety-five, lavishly illustrated throughout, including frontispieces, plates, and in-text photographs and illustrations.
'British Sports and Sportsmen' was a commanding series, containing many volumes on a wide variety of sporting subjects. Each volume was an extensive and vivid study into sport, and were popular library acquisitions of the day.
This set includes:
'Sportsmen Past and Present', in two volumes, dated 1908 - 1913. Volume I illustrated with one-hundred and fifteen plates, Volume II with one-hundred and fourteen. Collated, complete.
'Modern Flat-Racing Steeplechasing Point-to-Point Racing Coursing and Greyhound Racing', dated 1911. Illustrated with a frontispiece, eleven plates, and in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.
'Athletic Sports Tennis Rackets and other Ball Games', dated 1912. Illustrated with a frontispiece, nine plates, and in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.
'Shooting and Deerstalking', dated 1913. Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixty-two plates, and in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.
'Yachting and Rowing', dated 1916. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fifty-seven plates, and in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.
'Polo and Coaching', dated circa 1923. Illustrated with a frontispiece, nine plates, and in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.
'Hunting', dated circa 1926. Illustrated with a frontispiece, eleven plates, and in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.
'Commerce and Industry', dated circa 1930. Illustrated with a frontispiece, ten plates, and in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.
'Breeding and Agriculture Country-Life Pursuits', dated 1931. Illustrated with a frontispiece, eleven plates, and in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.
'Golf Athletics Tennis Hockey and other Ball Games Winter Sports', dated 1935. Illustrated with a frontispiece, nine plates, and in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.
Condition
In the original publisher's full morocco binding. Externally, generally smart, with rubbing to the spines and extremities. Spines are a little faded. Only a few small marks to the boards. Loss to the head of the spine both volumes of 'Sportsmen Past and Present'. A small amount of loss to the front board of 'Breeding and Agriculture'. Loss to the fore edge of 'Athletic Sports'. Lifting to the tail of the spine of 'Hunting', with a small worm hole to the front joint. 'Hunting' with heavy wear to the bottom edge, with loss, resulting in tears and creasing to the text. Dampstain to the front board of 'Golf'. Internally, firmly bound; binding of 'Racing' is tender in places, weak and almost failed between pages 400 and 40, and 236 and 237. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. 'Racing' is tide marked to the textblock, with loss of paper and discolouration to the front paste down and endpaper, rear endpaper is adhered to the rear paste down with heavy discolouration; loss to pages and heavy discolouration to the textblock, some pages are adhered to one another
Very Good
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