xviii, 486 pages of text including an index. Full leather binding with both boards rehinged; spine is darkened and there is minor shelfwear. This is a vanity binding personally bound for Henry Arthur Johnstone, with his monogram in gilt on the front cover, and leather endpapers with his nautical themed bookplate impressed into the leather-covered first free endpaper. Another bookplate, that of Howard Gould, is affixed to the inside front cover. Large paper edition, hand-numbered 130 of 250 copies published. Illustrated. The text is generally clean and is unmarked. First edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Seller Inventory # 019224

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Title: SWIMMING. Large Paper Edition. The Badminton...

Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co., London

Publication Date: 1893

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very good condition

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: Book

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