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ROUTLEDGE'S HANDBOOK OF CROQUET

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1st edition of Routledge's early croquet handbook.

32mo. iv, 61pp. plus adverts to rear. Illustrations and diagrams in-text throughout. Internally very good clear and bright, removed ex/libris mark to front free end paper with small stain to front end paper overlaps. Small bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. In original yellow paper covered pictorial boards. Rubbed upper, chipped spine, stained lower. Overall good+ Bears the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates, cousin of the famed Captain. [Drazin, A15 (a)]

 

Date
1864
Publisher
Routledge, Warne & Routledge
Author
Edmund ROUTLEDGE

£175.00 (Code: 7732)

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