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Marshall, Julian.. The Annals Of Tennis.. The Field Office., London, 1878.
Price: US$1090.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition 1878. Complete with all plates although one plate has been remounted on a new sheet of paper (of an contemporary age & hardly noticeable). Contents slightly shaken. Bound in the original highly decorated gilt and black cloth with crossed tennis rackets with three tennis balls beneath. Top edges gilt. Corners lightly bumped, top and bottom of spine rubbed and slightly frayed. The whole generally darkened. Rear spine hinge rubbed and slightly split. Generally a very good copy of this scarce book, This is an unusual copy in that some marks and notes have been made to the text and illustrations, mostly in pencil but one in ink. These are contemporary. 226 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Marshall, Julian. The Annals of Tennis. The Field, 1878.
Price: US$1475.18 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A lovely edition of Marshall's key work. 4to, publishers decorative green cloth, expertly rebacked preserving original backstrip, lightly rubbed. Housed in custom morocco-backed drop box, gilt. A handsome copy.
Seller: Pastsport, London, United Kingdom
Julian Marshall. The Annals of Tennis. "The Field" Office, London, 1878.
Price: US$1988.28 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A bright example of the first edition of this richly illustrated history of tennis, from tennis player Julian Marshall. The first edition of this work from journalist and tennis player Julian Marshall, who served as tennis correspondent to 'The Field', with some chapters in this work initially appearing in the magazine in 1876 and 1877.Marshall describes the work as 'the first attempt at a General History and Description of Tennis', providing both a history of the sport, and a guide to playing it.Illustrated with a frontispiece and forty-five illustration son twenty-seven leaves. Collated, complete.In the publisher's original cloth.With a former owner's inscription to a front blank.A delightful first edition about the history of the racket sport. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely, with boards exceptionally bright, and bumping to back strip head and tail. Tail of rear joint starting, with horizontal split to cloth of back strip. Hinges reinforced. Inscription to a front blank. Internally, binding lightly strained throughout, including between the title page and frontispiece. Text block weakly held between pages 48 and 49, and between 128 and 129. Pages bright. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
[TENNIS] MARSHALL, Julian. The Annals of Tennis. Field Office, London, 1878.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: 4to, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece depicting the "Le Jeu Royal de la Paume" in Paris, 1632 & 45 additional engraved plates, original decorated green cloth, t.e.g. Armorial bookplate on front endsheet, otherwise an exceptionally fine copy, clean and bright, almost as new. Armorial bookplate on front endsheet, otherwise an exceptionally fine copy, clean and bright, almost as new First edition of the most important book on real tennis published in the 19th Century. Julian Marshall was tennis correspondent to The Field, and some chapters in his book first appeared in the magazine in 1876 and 1877. The Annals of Tennis was both a history and a handbook, and according to Patrick Scott, Curator of the William D. Haggard III Tennis Collection, "intact copies are rare as the book was frequently kept in the dedans of tennis courts for reference." The beautiful Eastlake style binding is decorated with a centerpiece of crossed rackets over tennis balls surrounded by a geometric design in gilt and black.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
MARSHALL, Julian (1836-1903).. The Annals of Tennis. London: "The Field" Office, 1878., 1878.
Price: US$3800.00 + shipping
Description: 4to., (9 6/8 x 7 2/8 inches). Frontispiece wood-engraving and 45 plates on 27 leaves. Original green cloth decorated in black and gilt, top edges gilt (just scuffed at the extremities). First edition in book form, some of the chapters having already been published in "The Field" 1876-1877. "It is the first attempt at a General History and Description of Tennis: it is, therefore, necessarily imperfect." (Preface). Henderson p. 192.
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.