Athletics and Football
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. Stanley Berkeley. Large Paper. Hardcover. Lg. 8vo. xxvi, 446 pp. Gilt decorated 3/4 blue morocco over gilt stamped orange cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Expertly rebacked retaining original boards. Light rubbing to edges. Corners lightly bumped. Gilt top edge. Pages untrimmed. Light foxing to bottom edge. Silk ribbon marker. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. One of 250 numbered copy of the special Large Paper edition. Frontis. Book plate of previous owner to front endpaper. Illustrated with many b&w annotated in-text plates and charts by Stanley Berkeley and "instantaneous photigraphs by G. Mitchell." A very tight copy in very good condition. vg. Item #10830
Price: $600.00