Complete run of the 'Official Organ of the Croquet Association' from the Volume 1 Number 1, In April of 1904 at which stage 'Every member of the Croquet Association [is] entitled to to free delivery of every copy of the Croquet Association Gazette.' to Issue number 164 of December 1981. Includes a supplementary volume comprising facsimile full page extracts covering croquet from a journal entitled 'Lawn Tennis' from 1898 to 1900.
Vol.1, Issue 1 -Vol XVII, Issue 17 (1904-1920) folio format. Vols. 18- issue 164 (1921-1981) large quarto format. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Advertisments to paginated leaves and preliminaries, all covers, title sheets bound in. All bound in half blue-green morocco with red title labels, gilt embossed titles to spines. Volume XXXVI, No. 22 (total issue no. 901) of September 9th, 1939 was the last to have a volume number. Between May 25th 1940 and November 24th, 1945 were issued only 7 editions which bore 'War Emergency Numbers' the last being VJ (7). Following the end of the war the editions were numbered by issues per year until December 1953 at which stage a name change was enacted, the journal simplifying its title to 'Croquet' and numbered solely in sequential issues from Number 1 until the end of this run at 164. All volumes are complete and nice and square bearing only occasional handling marks and rubbed edges or foxing to fore-edges but being largely bright and clean. Some volumes bear ring binding holes and vary occasional leaves are loose (only 3 seen) New endpapers to all but a few volumes, the majority bearing the bookplate of David Prichard. Light shelf wear present to all bindings and some corners very mildly bumped with the only significant damage to bindings being a small (0.5 - 1cm) closed tear to the leather at the tail of the spine occurring on volumes XXX-XXXI & XXXII-XXXIII. All in all a very good condition run and the most comprehensive set seen.
- Date
- 1904-1981
- Publisher
- The Croquet Association
- Author
- CROQUET ASSOCIATION
£2,000.00 (Code: 1080)
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