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 giving dimensions of all known courts at end of volume II (outer margin of folding plates a little soiled and chipped), original blue cloth. (2)

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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 giving dimensions of all known courts at end of volume II (outer margin of folding plates a little soiled and chipped), original blue cloth. (2)

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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.

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