1909 British Sport Past and Present

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Illustrated with a colour tipped in frontispiece and fifteen colour tipped in plates. Collated complete. A detailed volume dedicated to British sports up to the twentieth century, providing a history and descriptions on sports such as hunting, fishing, racing, steeple-chasing, and more. Compiled in pursuance of a suggestion that extracts from the works of old writer on sport, with passages of modern authorities, would be of interest to contemporary sportsmen. Written by E. D. Cuming, a British writer and journalist. Illustrated by George Denholm Armour, a British painter and illustrator who made hundreds of illustrations for The Graphic, Punch and Country Life, most connected with horses and riding. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics, the 1932 Summer Olympics, and the 1948 Summer Olympics. Previously held in the library of John Kenneth Foster of Egton Manor in Cleveland, Yorkshire. Egton Manor is an historic country house near the village of Egton Bridge, on the banks of the River Esk in the North Yorkshire Moors, built in 1869 by the Foster family, whose descendants still live there today.