The Sports of the World

ed. F. G. Aflalo

Published by Cassell and Company Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1903

About this Item

A richly illustrated sports work containing essays on both popular and unusual sporting activities across the globe. This expansive work contains essays on elk-hunting, sea-fishing in Australia, pheasant shooting, racquets, football lion hunting, revolver shooting, Japanese wrestling, curling, sports with tigers and toboganning.Edited by F. G. Aflalo, with contributors including F. C. Selous, Theodore A. Cook, Colonel Walrond, Eustace Miles, the Baron de Vaux, H. Graces and W. H. Grenfell.The first subscriber's edition.Lavishly illustrated throughout with in-text photographs and drawings.With the ownership bookplate of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Courtney Brocklehurst, a veteran of the First World War awarded the 1914 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. He was stationed in Burma during the Second World War where he was killed in action aged 54 in 1942. In the original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart; spine is a little bumped to the head and tail, as are the extremities. The odd mark to the boards. Spine is a touch faded as to be expected. Ownership bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Good.

Seller Inventory # 796R1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sports of the World
• Publisher: Cassell and Company Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne
• Publication Date: 1903
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: Not Stated
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
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