Lot Essay
The archive of Oxford University Press reveals that by 1932 some 380 sets of this cloth-bound edition were pulped. The true limitation is therefore nearer 420.
Details
NOEL, Evan Baillie & J. O. M. CLARK. A History of Tennis, Oxford and London: Oxford University Press and Humphrey Milford, 1924, 2 volumes, 4°, FIRST EDITION, limited to 800 copies, coloured frontispiece, plates, folding table at end of volume II, original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt (spines lightly faded). (2)