Sports and Pastimes of the People of England by Strutt, Joseph - 1830

London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1876. Hardcover. Green library binding. Contains 140 engravings, extensive Index, and 32pp of books published by Chatto and Windus. End papers are an overall design with usual library marks for a book of this age. Title page is loose at top but still attached near bottom. Table of Contents pages have been repaired but are all present. Occasional light pencil marginalia. Binding is weak but holding. Rubbing to covers but no open wounds. ; Ex-Library; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 530 pages .

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Methuen, 1968. Hardcover. Good. 1968. No Edition Remarks. 322 pages. No dust jacket. Decorative cloth. Light water staining and tanning to pages; text unaffected. More prominent to text block edges. Binding is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild scuffing overall. Spine has light sunning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

William Tegg, 1867. 3rd Edition. hard cover. Good. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2018/09/0_img_0391-Copy.jpg. London: William Tegg. 1867. Third Edition. lxvii+420pp. Illustrated with 140 engravings. Green cloth boards, stamped and gilt decorated. Ex-lib with inked number on spine and stickers inside the front and rear (never withdrawn). Good condition. Boards are moderately shelfworn with handling grime, have bumped tips, and light fabric fraying at extremities. The gilt titling and decoration remain strong. There is some heavy foxing through the Table of Contents, and again in the last few pages of the Index. Otherwise just widely scattered age and foxing spots. The binding is square and secure. "General arrangement of the popular sports, pastimes, and military games, together with the various spectacles of mirth or splendour, exhibited publicly or privately, for the sake of amusement, at different periods, in England."  Originally published in 1801. "A… Read More

London: William Tegg and co,, 1855. New Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 23 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 420pp. Bound in purple boards. Frontispiece portrait. Woodcut illustrations. "New Edition", with a copious index by William Hone. Chipping to the spine. Corners bumped. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Gutters cracked.

"The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England" by Joseph Strutt. 1876; Chatto and Windus; London. The book is nicely illustrated "by one hundred and forty engravings, from ancient manuscripts." Included are "rural and domestic recreations, may games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time."Here are a few examples of the contents: Jugglers, Kissing Dance, Archery, Goff (golf), Discus, Bull Running, Combats with Axes, Bowling, Chess, Devil's Dance, Cricket, Draughts (checkers), Cribbage, Wind Ball, Yawning Match, Wire Dancing, Quadrille, Wrestling, Slinging Stones, Olympic Games, Pantomimes, Minstrels, Hawking, Ice Sliding, Duck Hunting, Frying Pan Music...and much more.Condition:Rebound with modern hardcovers. Lacks frontispiece. Both covers have a rectangular tanned area over most of the cloth. Cloth tear at the bottom edge of the spine. Tight binding with no loose pages. There is a minor crack at the front hinge between the… Read More

London: Thomas Tegg and Son, 1834. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo, pp. lxvii, 420, card boards with cloth spine, paper label bearing title, this worn and chipped, boards worn, corners bumped, interior with owner's initials on fep, title page torn towards hinge and several pages missing thereafter until Contents page (xi), thereafter reasonably clean, the paper lightly toned to the peripheries and with the occasional mark, the binding opening at the Contents page and at the rear end paper, otherwise sound, edges dust-dulled. This edition benefits greatly from an index, compiled by William Hone, and 140 illustrations 'selected from ancient paintings'.

Augustus M. Kelley, 1970-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Torn dust jacket.

Bath: Firecrest Publishing Ltd, 1969. Reprint. Very Good +. Joseph Strutt's 'Sports and Pastimes of the People of England', first published in 1801, is a classic reference work which can be relied upon as an excellent starting point for all but the most minute investigations into many of the sports that the world plays today. This remarkable Englishman who lived in Essex, London and Hertfordshire, from 1749 to 1802, was artistic, scholarly and industrious. This book pioneered the study of popular recreations and amusements as a whole. Strutt mined his information the hard way from the books, manuscripts and illustrations housed in his beloved British Museum in London. Sports and Pastimes was an immediate publishing success. It was republished thrice duriing the the 19th century and in 1903 J.Charles Fox revised and added with a skilled touch to Strutt's original work to produce this best and most valuable edition of them all. heavy and large book; posted to be adjusted accordingly. beige cloth… Read More