The
Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. 17
works in 18 volumes, 8vo (189 x 135mm). Plates and illustrations (occasional
light spotting and staining). Original pictorial cloth gilt (extremities rubbed, variously faded and lightly stained). The titles in the set are: Fishing (1886, second
edition), Boating (1888), Hunting (1888, fourth edition), Athletics
and Football (1889, third edition), Skating ... Figure-Skating
(1892), Golf (1893, fourth edition), Fencing ... Boxing ... Wrestling
(1893, third edition), Cricket (1893, fifth edition), Swimming
(1894, second edition), Yachting (1894 [-1904], 2 volumes [the first
vol. a third edition of 1904, the second vol. a first edition of 1894]),
Billiards (1896), Tennis ... Lawn tennis ... Rackets ... Fives (1897,
fourth edition), Racing and Steeple-Chasing (1889, third edition), Sea
Fishing (2 copies: 1901, reissue; and 1907, new impression) and Shooting
(2 copies: the first, 1906, eighth impression; and the second 1909, new
impression). (18)
