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DONALD WALKER
Sports and Games, London: Thomas Hurst, 1837. 12mo., half-title, engraved frontispiece, title and the chapters on rackets and tennis only (pp. 255-307) with 3 engraved plates and one full-page wood-engraving of a court plan (plates spotted), later morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt edges. Exhibited: The Queen's Club, 2004, no. 309.
THE PLATES ARE AMONG THE EARLIEST TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF TENNIS OR RACKETS TO APPEAR IN AN ENGLISH BOOK, showing "Racket[s]", "[Real] Tennis", and "Long or Open Tennis"; sold with two issues of The True Half-Penny Magazine, nos. 8 and 9, both dated 22 June 1832, containing articles on the rackets game, no. 8 with a wood-engraving of "The King's Bench Prison, Southwark". (3)
Sports and Games, London: Thomas Hurst, 1837. 12mo., half-title, engraved frontispiece, title and the chapters on rackets and tennis only (pp. 255-307) with 3 engraved plates and one full-page wood-engraving of a court plan (plates spotted), later morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt edges. Exhibited: The Queen's Club, 2004, no. 309.
THE PLATES ARE AMONG THE EARLIEST TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF TENNIS OR RACKETS TO APPEAR IN AN ENGLISH BOOK, showing "Racket[s]", "[Real] Tennis", and "Long or Open Tennis"; sold with two issues of The True Half-Penny Magazine, nos. 8 and 9, both dated 22 June 1832, containing articles on the rackets game, no. 8 with a wood-engraving of "The King's Bench Prison, Southwark". (3)
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