Pageantry of Sport: From the Age of Chivalry to the Age of Victoria by Arlott, John & Daley, Arthur - 1968

Hawthorn Books, 1968. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good/Good. The dustjacket has some short tears and edgewear. Illustrated with 16 color plates and 144 contemporary drawings, engravings and paintings. 128 pages illustrations (some color), portraits 28 x 40 cm. Contents: Introduction --Pageantry of sport / John Arlott --THe American scene / Arthur Daley --Angling --Honest, civil, quiet men / Izaak Walton --Let me live harmlessly / Izaak Walton --Archery --Philologe to shoote streyght / Roger Ascham --Boxing --The gas-man v. Bill Neate / William Hazlitt --Champions of the Ring / Pierce Egan --Cock-fighting --Of dieting and ordering a cock for battle / Charles Cotton --The cocking-main / Mark Twain --Cricket --Tricks of the trade / James Pycroft --Cricket match between twenty-two females / Pierce Egan --Singular cricket matches and races / Pierce Egan --Alfred Mynn / William Jeffrey Prowse --John Small / Pierce Egan --Fencing --Backswordsmanship / John Godfrey --Letters concerning the Hungerford… Read More

Hawthorn Books, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.

New York: Hawthorn Books, 1968. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10.7x15.6x0.9in. light wear to bottom tips, dust jacket light worn at extremities with small tear at bottom edge of front panel. Dust jacket in clear protector. Illustrated with 16 color plates and 144 contemporary drawings, engravings and paintings. 128pp 4.17lb 10.7x15.6x0.9in

Paul Elek Productions Ltd 1968. With selections from the writings of William Hazlitt, Pierce Egan, Nimrod, Izaak Walton, Mark Twain, Henry Fielding, Charles Dickens and many others. Near fine dark green cloth boards, white spine, gold lettering to spine, gold wrestlers motif to front board, near fine coloured pictorial dust jacket, landscape (oblong) 10.5 x 14.0 inches approx. , price clipped, black and white illustrated endpapers, 128 pages, 16 coloured plates, 144 contemporary drawings, engravings and paintings in black & white. Features a variety of sports Including: cricket, shooting, coursing, golf, racing, boxing, gaming, hunting, yachting, .