1888-1905 A Collection from The Badminton Library

Description

Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Five volumes. The Badminton Library. A collection of volumes on sports and pastimes, from the sporting and publishing project conceived by Longmans Green & Co. and edited by Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort. Between 1885 and 1902 it developed into a series of sporting books which aimed to cover comprehensively all major sports and pastimes. This set contains: Hunting, 1888. Fourth edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and numerous in-text images. Written by Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, a British peer, soldier, and Conservative politician who conceived and edited the project of The Badminton Library which began with this volume, and Mowbray Morris, a British author and journalist. Shooting: Field and Covert, 1892. Fourth edition, revised. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text images. Written by Thomas de Grey, Lord Walsingham, an English politician and amateur entomologist, and Sir Ralph William Frankland Payne-Gallwey, an English engineer, historian, ballistics expert, and artist. Yachting, 1895. Volume one of two only. Second edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, twenty plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. Written by Sir Edward Sullivan, an Irish lawyer, and a Liberal Member of Parliament for Mallow, with contributions from many others. Big Game Shooting, 1903. Volume two of two only. New edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixteen plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. Written by Clive Phillips-Wolley, a British-Canadian official, author and big game hunter, with contributions from many others. Riding and Polo, 1905. New edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-five plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. Written by Captain Robert Weir, a British sportsman and writer, and J. Moray Brown, a British Army Officer who wrote several books on sporting topics.