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London: T. Bensley, For White And Co, 1810. Second edition. . Hardcover. Good+. 4to 32 Cm. [2]-xlix-[6]-357pp 39 plates, ex Derby Town & Country Library, leather spine & marbled boards. As neither the British Library nor other booksellers list a volume 2 I assume this is all was printed.

London: T. Bensley for White and Co., 1810. Second Edition. 1/4 leather. 30.5 x 23.5 cm. Quarto. 357 pages. 59 sepia plates. Contemporary brown quarter calf with 5 raised bands to spine. Marble boards, endpapers and foredges. Fairly extensive foxing to the plates. Expert mending to front and rear joint. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Binding is tight. First published in 12801, Strutt's was the standard guide to the history, customs, and rules of every sport and board game known to Britain. These included: chess, tennis, falconry, hunting, billiards, swimming, track and field, archery, rowing, wrestling, angling, horse-racing, skating, sailing, puppetry, minstrel singing, juggling, fencing, fire-eating, bull-baiting, bowling, dominos, various card-games, dice, jousting, an early form of baseball.

T. Bensley, 1810. Hardcover. Good. Frontispiece engraved in sepia and 39 engraved plates also in sepia. Some spotting. Half Tan Calf, gilt, marbled paper boards, second edition.

J. White, London, 1801. Hard back, full morocco, with elaborate gilt decoration. 30 x 24.cm. 1801 First edition. xlix, 301pp. Complete with 40 sepia tinted plates. Rebacked with later replacement spine and end-papers. Light to moderate foxing to many pages. Remains an attractive book. 2.2 kgs before packing, additional postage charges apply for delivery outside the UK.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, London for J.White, at Horace's Head, Fleet St, 1801, 1st edition. Contempory (or near contemprary) half leather binding with marbled boards. 12.5ins x 10ins, l, [6pp], 302pp plus frontis and 39 sepia printed plates. Previous owners signature to verso of frontis.There are old repairs to the verso of the frontis, pps 9/10 and 59/60. There is a small amount of loss to the margin of plate 4. Lightly foxed throughout. Marbled boards rubbed. Bottom corners very worn. Hinges re-inforced with fabric. A complete and attractive copy of this scarce first edition. VG.

London: T. Bensley, Bolt Court. For J. White, at Horace's Head, Fleet Street, 1801. First Edition. 4to. Coloured frontis. Pp. l, [6], 301, directions to the binder on p.302, with 39 coloured copper-engraved plates, all with guards. Contemporary tree calf boards, early re-backing, with a newly added red spine label and leather repaired corners, with light wear to the edges and burn scars to some parts of the boards. Previous owner's bookplate removed from the paste-down endpaper. Light Scattered foxing, but otherwise a good clean copy in a tight binding. Lowndes, 2538.

T. Bensley, for White and Co. (et al.). Used - Very Good. 1810. Full calf, rebacked preserving original front and rear covers, spine ruled and decorated in gilt in 19th century style. 357 pp., well illustrated with full page plates showing the recreations described in the text. Scattered foxing to plates; very sound overall. All edges gilt. Minor rubbing to edges of bidning. (Subject: Medieval, Britain & Ireland.)

London: at Horace's Head, Fleet Street: J. White, 1801. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Super clean, crisp copy of Strutt's classic Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. Strutt is often called the first English social historian. First edition, 1802, in quarter red goatskin over blue cloth (by Delrue), some blind tooling. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, frontis, [2], [1], (ii-l), [6] contents, [1], 2-301 pp, [1] pl list, 40 coloured pls (including frontis), t.e.g., remainder marbled, in a custom slipcase. A Near Fine copy. (289*231 mm). (Schwerdt II p231. Lowndes 2538). Text leaves watermarked J Whatman 1794, plates watermarked Taylor 1796 & J Whatman 1794. Title continues: from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings in which are represented most of the popular diversions. Accounts on hunting, hawking, archery, stone throwing, golf,… Read More

London: T. Bensley for J. White, 1801. First edition. Illustrated with frontis and 39 hand-colored engraved plates by Strutt. Bound by Morrell for John Wanamaker. Quarto full red morocco with sides elaborately tooled in blind and ruled in gilt; 5 spine panels within raised bands tooled in blind and stamped in gilt; all edges gilt; elaborately gilt-tooled inner dentelles; beautifully marbled endpapers. Bound by Morrell for John Wanamaker. Bookplate of son Rodman Wanamaker on pastedown. Father and son were luxury department store magnates and the elder Wanamaker, for whom Philadelphia's Wanamaker Building is named, served as Postmaster General. Strutt's "Sports and Pastimes" contains "all forms of mental and physical recreation, from archery to bell-ringing, football to apple-bobbing, opera to dancing round the maypole," his primary interest being "less in the rules of games than in the lives of their players" -- it is "not for nothing [he has] been called the first English social historian" (David… Read More