The Badminton Library, edited by Henry Somerset Duke of Beaufort and Alfred Watson, London: Longmans, Green, 1886-94, 24 works in 28 volumes, small 4°, plates and illustrations, original blue half morocco over orange boards (spines a little frayed and rubbed, also slightly sunfaded) -- and a Concordance to the Holy Scriptures (London, 1876). (29)

VI. Natural History, Sport & Games

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The Badminton Library, edited by Henry Somerset Duke of Beaufort and Alfred Watson, London: Longmans, Green, 1886-94, 24 works in 28 volumes, small 4°, plates and illustrations, original blue half morocco over orange boards (spines a little frayed and rubbed, also slightly sunfaded) -- and a Concordance to the Holy Scriptures (London, 1876). (29)

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Titles comprise Archery (1894), Athletics and Football (new edition, 1888), Big Game Shooting (2 vols., 1894), Billiards (1896), Boating (2nd edition, 1889), Cricket (3rd edition, 1889), Coursing and Falconry (1892), Cycling (2nd edition, 1889), Dancing (1895), Driving (2nd edition, 1889), Fencing, Boxing, Wrestling (1889), Fishing (2 vols., mixed editions, 1886-87), Golf (1890), Hunting (3rd edition, 1886), Mountaineering (1892), The Poetry of Sport (1896), Racing and Steeple-Chasing (2nd edition, 1887), Riding, Polo (1891), Sea Fishing (1895), Shooting (2nd edition, 2 vols., 1887), Skating (1892), Swimming (1893), Tennis (1890), Yachting (2 vols., 1894).

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