Walker's Manly Exercises Containing Rowing, Sailing, Riding, Driving, Racing, Hunting, Shooting and Other Manly Sports
by Craven
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Farningham, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Orr & Co., 1851 xii, 264pp plus index and publishers lists. 44 instructional plates together with numerous decorative vignettes. Decorative gilt spine with blind stamped boards. An unusual early book extolling the virtues of exercise, so nothing is new, but only for men!
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- Bookseller
- Wadard Books PBFA (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18644
- Title
- Walker's Manly Exercises Containing Rowing, Sailing, Riding, Driving, Racing, Hunting, Shooting and Other Manly Sports
- Author
- Craven
- Format/Binding
- Publishers Blind Stamped Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Ninth Edition
- Publisher
- Orr & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1851
- Size
- 175x125mm
Terms of Sale
Wadard Books PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Wadard Books PBFA
Biblio member since 2014
Farningham, Kent
About Wadard Books PBFA
The shop of Wadard Books is located in a listed 17th century timber framed building in the historic Kentish village of Farningham. The business is named after Wadard, one of Farningham's Domesday landlords, a henchman of Bishop Odo and featured on the Bayeaux tapestry.
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