1900 The Young Sportsman

Description

First Edition, Illustrated

The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front board. Top edge gilt.

An early twentieth-century encyclopaedia of sport, including angling, archery, bowls, boxing, canoeing, cricket, cycling, driving, fencing, football, golf, hockey, hunting, lawn tennis, riding, rowing, shooting, swimming, wrestling, and much more. Illustrated with numerous in-text illustrations throughout.

With contributions by Montague Shearman, J. E. Harting, Walter Herries Pollock, and the Rev. John Kerr, among many others. A large part of this work was reprinted from the Encyclopaedia of Sport. Edited by Alfred E. T. Watson.