Lot 376
Badminton Library
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 5 September 2007 at 12:00 BST
Description
The Badminton Library of sports and pastimes … London: Longmans, Green, 1886-98, 8vo, 29 volumes, plates (including some colour), half blue morocco, orange boards, t.e.g., others uncut, some volumes slightly scuffed, some instances of foxing (29)
Footnote
Note: A set of mixed editions, comprising: 1. Big game shooting, 2nd ed, 2 vols., 1895; 2. Lawn tennis, 1895; 3. Cycling, 1887; 4. Driving, 1889; 5. Shooting, vol. 1, 5th, vol. 2, 4th ed., 2 vols., 1893-1895; 6. Fishing, 2nd ed., 2 vols., 1886; 7. Skating, 1892; 8. Swimming, 2ed., 1894; 9. Fencing, etc., 1889; 10. Hunting, 2ed, 1886; 11. Mountaineering, 1892; 12. Golf, 5th ed, 1895; 13. Boating, 3rd ed, 1891; 14. Athletics & football, 1887; 15. Sea fishing, 1895; 16. Yachting, vol. 1, 2nd ed, vol. 2, 1st ed., 2 vols., 1894-95; 17. Riding & polo, 1891; 18. Archery, 1894; 19. Billiards, 1896; 20. Racing, 4th ed., 1893; 21. Cricket, 1888; 22. Dancing, 1895; 23. Poetry of sport, 1896; Coursing & falconry, 1892; 24. Rowing & punting, 1898