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1968 Pageantry of Sport: From the Age of Chivalry to the Age of Victoria
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
The first edition of this work. A charming sporting work telling of the history of various sports and games, opening with an introduction to the history of sport by John Arlott, and a summary by Arthur Daley of the evolution of the national games of America.
Featuring selections from the writings of William Hazlitt, Pierce Egan, Nimrod, Izaak Walton, Mark Twain, Henry Fielding, Charles Dickens, and many others.
A fascinating work discussing the origins and development of all sorts of sports, from tennis and cricket to fencing, football, angling, cock-fighting, boxing, hunting, skating, &c.
Illustrated with sixteen colour plates and numerous other black and white contemporary drawings, engravings, and paintings ranging from twelfth-century illuminated manuscripts to the prints of famous sporting artists such as Pollard, Alken, and Leech. Collated, complete.
Complete with its unclipped dust wrapper.
Condition
In the original publisher's full cloth binding in duo tone. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, minor bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities, darkened lightly to head and tail of spine and perimeters of the boards. Dust wrapper unclipped and very smart with minor shelf wear, minor chipping to head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. With sixteen full page colour plates and other black and white illustrations. Collated, complete.
Very Good Indeed
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