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RICHARD PHILLIPS, publisher
The Book of Games: or, A History of Juvenile Sports
London: 1812. 12°, 24 engraved plates (title and frontispiece partially detached, corner of title torn away, some dust-soiling, small hole in last leaf, without end advertisements), contemporary drab boards backed in green roan (spine frayed, joints cracked, extremities rubbed, piece torn from rear endpaper).
Third edition. The charming plates, which include both cricket and trap-ball, have the imprint of another publisher, Tabart, who issued the first edition in 1805. Marjorie Moon, Benjamin Tabart's Juvenile Library 14; Padwick 7115.
The Book of Games: or, A History of Juvenile Sports
London: 1812. 12°, 24 engraved plates (title and frontispiece partially detached, corner of title torn away, some dust-soiling, small hole in last leaf, without end advertisements), contemporary drab boards backed in green roan (spine frayed, joints cracked, extremities rubbed, piece torn from rear endpaper).
Third edition. The charming plates, which include both cricket and trap-ball, have the imprint of another publisher, Tabart, who issued the first edition in 1805. Marjorie Moon, Benjamin Tabart's Juvenile Library 14; Padwick 7115.
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