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CASSELL'S BOOK OF SPORTS AND PASTIMES

CASSELL
CASSELL

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Compendium of sports and non sporting pastimes illustrated throughout with line drawings of apparatus, equipment and players in action and diagrams of boards, pitches, moves and tactics and a full colour frontispiece of cricketers in action.

8vo. 975pp. Black and white illustrations in-text throughout and frontis. Internally very good, clean and bright. In half black cloth, a little rubbed, corners recovered in black tape and the spine hinges cracked but intact. Gilt bands and spine titles. Overall  good.

Date
n.d. [c.1900]
Publisher
Cassell, Petter & Galpin
Author
cassell

£25.00 (Code: 28684)

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