[M.C.C. Rules]: The Rules of Tennis, revised by the Marylebone Cricket Club, April 26th, 1872, London: Harrison and Sons, 1872, 4°, the front cover bearing (possible) owner's signature, the inside inscribed with a list of Public and Private Real Tennis courts, the frontispiece inscribed 'He who stoops to conquer'; and The Laws of Tennis, with ammendments July 31st, 1923, London: the Marylebone Cricket Club, 1923, 4°
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[M.C.C. Rules]: The Rules of Tennis, revised by the Marylebone Cricket Club, April 26th, 1872, London: Harrison and Sons, 1872, 4°, the front cover bearing (possible) owner's signature, the inside inscribed with a list of Public and Private Real Tennis courts, the frontispiece inscribed 'He who stoops to conquer'; and The Laws of Tennis, with ammendments July 31st, 1923, London: the Marylebone Cricket Club, 1923, 4°

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[M.C.C. Rules]: The Rules of Tennis, revised by the Marylebone Cricket Club, April 26th, 1872, London: Harrison and Sons, 1872, 4°, the front cover bearing (possible) owner's signature, the inside inscribed with a list of Public and Private Real Tennis courts, the frontispiece inscribed 'He who stoops to conquer'; and The Laws of Tennis, with ammendments July 31st, 1923, London: the Marylebone Cricket Club, 1923, 4°
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The cover of the above lot bears the signature 'S Ponsonby' who, along with J.M. Heathcote, E. Chandos Leigh, W. Hart Dyke and C.G. Lyttelton, was responsible for revising this edition

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