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Glig-Gamena Angel-Deod, or the Sports and Pasttimes of the People of the People of England; Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May-Games, Mummeries, Pageants, Processions, and Pompous Spectacles
by Joseph Strutt
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About This Item
London: T. Bensley for White and Co., 1810. Second Edition. 1/4 leather. 30.5 x 23.5 cm. Quarto. 357 pages. 59 sepia plates. Contemporary brown quarter calf with 5 raised bands to spine. Marble boards, endpapers and foredges. Fairly extensive foxing to the plates. Expert mending to front and rear joint. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Binding is tight. First published in 12801, Strutt's was the standard guide to the history, customs, and rules of every sport and board game known to Britain. These included: chess, tennis, falconry, hunting, billiards, swimming, track and field, archery, rowing, wrestling, angling, horse-racing, skating, sailing, puppetry, minstrel singing, juggling, fencing, fire-eating, bull-baiting, bowling, dominos, various card-games, dice, jousting, an early form of baseball.
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- Midway Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55649
- Title
- Glig-Gamena Angel-Deod, or the Sports and Pasttimes of the People of the People of England; Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May-Games, Mummeries, Pageants, Processions, and Pompous Spectacles
- Author
- Joseph Strutt
- Format/Binding
- 1/4 leather
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- T. Bensley for White and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1810
- Keywords
- Hunting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports;
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
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