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PASTIMES AND PLAYERS

PASTIMES AND PLAYERS

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A Victorian history of various sports and pastimes, including two chapters on early cricket, plus golf, tennis and other more obscure subjects such as the Quintain (joust) and Beltane (Celtic Mayday).

8vo. 203pp. Original patterned boards. Boards lightly worn. A good first-edition copy.

Date
1881
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Author
Robert MacGREGOR

£100.00 (Code: 99280)

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