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, London: Oxford University Press, 1924, 2 volumes, 4°, FIRST EDITION, limited to 800 copies, coloured frontispiece, half tone and collotype plates, folding table at end of volume II (lightly spotted, and with short clean tear), original blue cloth, covers ruled in blind, spine titled in gilt (very lightly scuffed). (2)