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JOSEPH STRUTT
Glig-gamena Angel Deod: or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England
London: T. Bensley for J. White, 1801. 4to., 9½ x 11¾in. (24 x 30cm), 40 wood-engraved plates printed in sepia, 39 hand-coloured (title spotted), contemporary straight-grained blue morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt and blind with central arabesque on covers (upper cover slightly scuffed, corners rubbed and bumped), gilt edges.
FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY. Plate VIII shows examples of medieval "Bat and Ball" games. Cricket, "of late years ... exceedingly fashionable", is briefly outlined on pp. 83-84, and Strutt also writes of related games such as stool-ball and trap-ball. Lowndes Bibliographer's Manual III, 2538; Goldman p. 182; Taylor p. 94; Padwick 836.
Glig-gamena Angel Deod: or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England
London: T. Bensley for J. White, 1801. 4to., 9½ x 11¾in. (24 x 30cm), 40 wood-engraved plates printed in sepia, 39 hand-coloured (title spotted), contemporary straight-grained blue morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt and blind with central arabesque on covers (upper cover slightly scuffed, corners rubbed and bumped), gilt edges.
FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY. Plate VIII shows examples of medieval "Bat and Ball" games. Cricket, "of late years ... exceedingly fashionable", is briefly outlined on pp. 83-84, and Strutt also writes of related games such as stool-ball and trap-ball. Lowndes Bibliographer's Manual III, 2538; Goldman p. 182; Taylor p. 94; Padwick 836.
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