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R[OBERT] H[OWLETT]
The School of Recreation: Or, The Gentlemans Tutor to those most ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-Fighting, Fowling, Fishing, Shooting, Bowling, Tennis, Ringing, Billiards. London: H. Rhodes, 1684. 12mo, engraved frontispiece, 3 advertisement leaves at end. (Ink stain and light spots to frontispiece, a few corner repairs, margins cropped, lightly soiled throughout.) Marbled calf gilt by Lloyd.
FIRST EDITION. The section on tennis includes 'The Tennis-Court', a seven stanza poem. Schwerdt I, p. 225: 'a scarce and comprehensive booklet on a great variety of British sports'; Westwood & Satchell p. 110; Wing H-3194.
The School of Recreation: Or, The Gentlemans Tutor to those most ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-Fighting, Fowling, Fishing, Shooting, Bowling, Tennis, Ringing, Billiards. London: H. Rhodes, 1684. 12mo, engraved frontispiece, 3 advertisement leaves at end. (Ink stain and light spots to frontispiece, a few corner repairs, margins cropped, lightly soiled throughout.) Marbled calf gilt by Lloyd.
FIRST EDITION. The section on tennis includes 'The Tennis-Court', a seven stanza poem. Schwerdt I, p. 225: 'a scarce and comprehensive booklet on a great variety of British sports'; Westwood & Satchell p. 110; Wing H-3194.