British Sports and Sportsmen Series
Cricket and Football British Sports and Sportsmen Series
British Sports and Sportsmen, London, 1917.
First edition, number 112 of 1000 copies. Folio. Publisher's half green buckram over tan boards, lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. A large impressive volume, printed on coated stock. Illustrated with many photographs, photogravures and portraits, including a frontispiece portrait of W.G. Grace. A near fine copy.
Chapters include Old Time Cricket; Modern Cricket; Tours at Home and Abroad; Style and Progression; Club Cricket Tours; W G Grace An Appreciation; Batsmen: by a Bowler; Bowlers by a Batsman; The Professional Cricketer; The Evolution of Association Football; The Rise of Rugby Football; Rugby Football at the Universities; Strategy and Tactics in the Welsh Rugby Game; Form at Football; Prominent Players and their Performances.
Stock ID: 45385
