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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hard covers in tidy condition with a similar dust jacket, slightly browned at the edges, a facsimile of the 1636 edition Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright tape-marked boards and end papers, minor foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight sunning to spine. 85pp. The games consisting of a great many sports were instituted in the reign of James I on Dover Hill in Weston-sub-Edge in Gloucestershire and continued for many years until the fields were enclosed in the reign of George III. Reprint of the 1878 edition. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9 x 7 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xvi, 88pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Sun-faded bottom edge of front boards. Top text block edge dusty and foxing. Green endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, light chipping to edges, lightly bumped spine ends, price clipped. 8vo. Facsimile of the 1878 edition. The Cotswold Olimpick Games is an annual public celebration of games and sports, now held near Chipping Norton each Spring. The games, first held in 1612, originated with a local lawyer, Robert Dover. The Annalia Dubrensia (Annals of Dover), is collection of poems praising Dover and his achievements in promoting and managing the games, first published in 1636.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition Thus. Smaller format Paperback , Good , 1st edition thus - issued monthly , one shilling , illustrated , P317 - 436 includes 17 pages adverts , 15 Headings include book review country things by Alison Uttley , My Irish Garden by Mary Harding , pests / bonfires / paeonies / poppyworts etc [ book - beige/green paper wraps coming adrift with loss to spine base area 25mms o/w still holding its own rear fep tight , no inscsp/ annotations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xii, 84, frontispiece, facsimile of 1636 title page and frontispiece, facsimile of the 1878 edition of the book containing poems on the Dover Games by Drayton, Randall, Wallington, Cole, Ben Johnson, Thomas Heywood and other Elizabethan and Jacobean poets. dj complete, spine faded, top edge browned. No inscriptions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.