Sporting Days and Sporting Ways

The first edition of this historical book about sports in the eighteenth century up to the contemporary period. The first edition of Sporting Days and Sporting Ways by Ralph Nevil in the original publisher's cloth binding.An interesting historical study of sports in the eighteenth century up to the contemporary present day in the early nineteenth century.Includes a colour plate as the frontispiece with a tissue guard of men on a hunt.With tables throughout the text. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. There is some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. There are incisions or tears to the top of the cloth on the front board. The spine is slightly faded. The front hinge is starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with the occasional spot, particularly to the endpapers. The tissue guard to the frontispiece is present and in tact. Very Good.