Athletics and Football. The Badminton Library first edition in a signed fine binding of three-quarter blue morocco & marbled boards by Root & Son.

Montague Shearman with a contribution on paper-chasing by W.Rye and an introduction by Sir Richard Webster, Q.C. M.P.,

London: Longmans Green and Co, 1889.

Third edition, crown 8vo (7½” x 5½”), pp. xxiv, 408, 6 wood engraved plates, wood engraved illustrations throughout after Stanley Berkeley and from photographs after G. Mitchell.

Three-quarter blue morocco & marbled boards by Root & Son with their pallet signature on the front free endpaper, back in three gilt paneled compartments with gilt dots in corners, gilt lettered in the first, gilt frame & panel in the second, gilt date & corner ornaments in the third, two gilt dot decorated raised bands, sides & corners with gilt double fillet trim, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers.

Very good+ clean bright condition, head-cap chipped, slight wear. Sheets & plates clean, unmarked, complete.                                                                                                  $175