Sports & Games from Bristow and Garland

Published by Madame Brenner at Her Gymnasium, 35 Bruton Street, Berkeley Square, London, 1870. First edition (& likely only edition). 22 plates (of exercises with the Dumb Bell, with a Wand, with a Chest Expander, Jumping-Leaping - Trapeze exercises etc). 8vo (8 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches), 82-pages. Original bevelled green cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, all edges gilt,… Read more about this item

William Blackwood, 1898. Plates. 8vo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches), 465-pages. Contemporary full crimson prize calf, sides gilt ruled enclosing gilt academic arms on upper cover. Spine gilt extra in compartments with green lettering piece, all edges marbled. Prize label on front free endpper partly scribbled out. In excellent condition & very attractive.

Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1983. Illustrations. Softback. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), 312-pages. Original pictorial light card wrappers; spine sunned else very good.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1928. First edition. Photographic plates. 8vo (10 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), 307-pages. Original purple cloth; spine faded., headband worn, some dust marking. Two pictorial bookplates on front pastedown and a name stamp. Inscription on front free endpaper.

Longmans, Green, London 1927. First edition. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 inches), 274-pages. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Some marking to upper cover & joint but not the spine. Endpapers tanned, contemporary inscription on front pastedown. Overall very good. Weight 2.314 kg thus extra postage will be requested.

Caxton, London, 1957. 1st reprint. Three volumes. Coloured frontispieces, b&w plates and illustrations. 4to (9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches), pages: 415; 378; 363, plus substantial unpaginated index. Original faux blue morocco gilt. Very good.

Longmans, Green, London 1927. First edition. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 inches), 274-pages. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Lower boards rubbed, foxing to prelims. Overall very good. Weight 2.314 kg thus extra postage will be requested.

Longman, London, 1860. 8 folding maps. 8vo (7 x 4 3/4 inches, 328-pages.Contemporary full tan calf, sides ruled in gilt enclosing the gilt armorial of Harrow School, spine gilt extra with burgundy lettering piece, all edges marbled. Damp mark to corner of portrait else very good. Prize label on front pastedown

No publisher, no place n.d. ca. 1900. Illustrations. 12mo (4 1/2 x 3 inches), 96-pages. Original blue cloth; binding bent and rubbed, internally very good. Uncommon, no copy cited by Jisc.

1905 15 x 10 inches.Chip out of base affecting the imprint. Scarce.

T.T. and J. Tegg London, 1833. [title continued]: illustrated by one hundred and forty engravings, in which are represented most of the popular diversions ; selected from ancient paintings ; with a copious index, by William Hone.With all the 140 engravings in the text beautifully hand coloured by a contemporary hand in watercolour The title page with the original… Read more about this item

1905 15 x 10 inches. Slight surface rubbing; mounted on card.

1905 15 x 10 inches. Slight edge chips. With the leaf of descriptive text. Scarce.

Lancaster & Co. Gun & Rifle Makers, London, 1942. Tenth edition. Plates. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 207-pages. Contemporary full unlettered brown polished calf. Signature on front free endpaper.

Cresset Press, 1929. Number 97 of a Limited Edition of 650. Folding frontispiece. 8vo (8 3/4 x 7 inches), 123-pages. Original parchment backed boards. Boards damp-marked, endpapers foxed. Spine spotted and discoloured. Contemporary signature and date on front free endpaper.

Longmans, Green, London, 1894. First edition. 8vo (7 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches), 443-pages. Original brwn pictorial cloth. Spine a little dulled, top edge dusty.

7 of the photographs show events at St. Anselms School Sports Day and 15 at Radnor House School. Disbound, 1 leaf detached. Very good.

Methuen, London, 1903. A reprint of the edition of 1821. Additional coloured pictorial title and 50 fine coloured plates. Large folio (19 x 12 1/4 inches). Original 2-tone cloth; binding very poor and stained. Text with occasional damp-making to fore-margin, with the very occasional slight bleed from the red dye of the binding. The plates however, apart from the last,… Read more about this item

Chapman & Hall, London, 1864. First edition. 8vo (8 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches), pages: xx(inc. 10-page list of subscribers):380, original red blindstamped cloth. Lacking 2-inches at headband, crudely repaired with tape and marked. Small name and address sticker on front free endpaper. Internally good.

Longman, Brown, Green, 1853. Frontispiece and illustrations in the text. 8vo (7 x 4 5/8 inches), pages: viii:312:24 (publisher's advertisements). Original green blindstamped cloth. 1 1/4 inch split to upper joint. Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper and recto of frontispiece.