Fine Books and Manuscripts
Sat, Apr 18, 2020 12:00PM EDT
Lot 421
The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.
Estimate: $300 - $500
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[Fine Bindings] (Somerset, Henry) The Duke of Beaufort. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894/1898. Various editions. 12 volumes only. Including driving; dancing; skating; shooting (2 vols.); cycling; hunting; big game shooting (2 vols.); rowing and punting; fencing; boxing and wrestling; and archery. Attractively bound in half crushed brown Levant over marbled boards, raised bands with gilt filets, compartments titled in gilt, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Frontispiece in each volume with tissue guards. Illustrated with plates and intertextual woodcuts. 12mo. Spines lightly sunned, occasional browning at margins; else tight and superior.
