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  The Lonsdale Anthology of Sporting Prose and Verse 1924
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Make/Author/Artist: Eric Parker Editor
Edition/ Material: 1924
Details: Hard Cover

Quantity in Stock:1

Product Code: LONSDALE

Description
 
Collection of literary references to sporting and sports from the turn of the previous century. Illustrated with plates. Covering :
  • Angling;
  • Shooting;
  • Big Game;
  • Stalking;
  • Hunting;
  • Riding & Driving;
  • Polo;
  • Racing;
  • Pig Sticking;
  • Cricket;
  • Football (soccer);
  • fives;
  • tennis;
  • billiards;
  • golf;
  • Winter Sports;
  • skating;
  • Athletics;
  • Fencing;
  • Rowing;
  • Boxing;
  • Archery;
  • Mountaineering;
  • Yachting;
  • Swimming; and more.
There is a Hymn to the Wild Boar to celebrate the sport of pig-sticking, The Song of the Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and a Ballade of Dead Cricketers by Andrew Lang, among many selections.

CONDITION: Hard Cover, Good with some bowing to boards, minor stain on from spine on page edge. The Lonsdale Library Volume XII. 376 pp. Full color frontispiece, 21 black and white plates. 376 pages
Inside front cover inscription to previous owner dated 1924

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