Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green library binding. Contains 140 engravings, extensive Index, and 32pp of books published by Chatto and Windus. End papers are an overall design with usual library marks for a book of this age. Title page is loose at top but still attached near bottom. Table of Contents pages have been repaired but are all present. Occasional light pencil marginalia. Binding is weak but holding. Rubbing to covers but no open wounds. ; Ex-Library; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 530 pages
Seller: The Book Lady, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
Joseph Strutt. The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. Chatto and Windus, 1876.
Price: US$38.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-Library. Library sticker, stamps and pencil markings on inside cover. Small line of red marker pen on title page. General wear to cover including scratches/scuffs/markings. Foxing on pages and some text. Light pen marks on pg. 484.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 530pp. + 32pp. Publishers cat. Engravings. Two ink names to prelims. Bookplate. Front inner joint cracked, fr.fly creased. original patterned cloth, gilt rubbed and spotted. Size: Cr.8vo
Seller: Scorpio Books, IOBA, Bungay, United Kingdom
Joseph Strutt. The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. Chatto and Windus, 1876.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England" by Joseph Strutt. 1876; Chatto and Windus; London. The book is nicely illustrated "by one hundred and forty engravings, from ancient manuscripts." Included are "rural and domestic recreations, may games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time." Here are a few examples of the contents: Jugglers, Kissing Dance, Archery, Goff (golf), Discus, Bull Running, Combats with Axes, Bowling, Chess, Devil's Dance, Cricket, Draughts (checkers), Cribbage, Wind Ball, Yawning Match, Wire Dancing, Quadrille, Wrestling, Slinging Stones, Olympic Games, Pantomimes, Minstrels, Hawking, Ice Sliding, Duck Hunting, Frying Pan Music.and much more. Condition: Rebound with modern hardcovers. Lacks frontispiece. Both covers have a rectangular tanned area over most of the cloth. Cloth tear at the bottom edge of the spine. Tight binding with no loose pages. There is a minor crack at the front hinge between the end paper and half title page resulting in the front cover being just a bit shaky. The back cover is firmly attached. The pages are lightly age-toned, though not brittle. The upper-outer corner of page 219 has torn away; a dime-sized piece has torn away at the outer edge of page 169.in both instances, the text is unaffected. Within pages 87-97, occasional lines of text have been underlined very lightly in pencil (the underlines could easily be erased if desired). Name/date (1913) written in pencil on the half title page. "1801" is written in pencil below the author's name on the title page. Overall the book is in Good condition.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.
Strutt, Joseph. Sports and Games of the Peple of England. Chatto & Windus, London, 1876.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 430 pages. Green cloth with bright gilt decoration on front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. Edited by William Hone. Color frontispiece. Corners and edges of backstrip show some wear. Former owner's nameplate on front paste-down. The binding is tight and square. PLEASE INQUIRE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND PHOTOGRAPHS. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Village Booksmith, Hudson Falls, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$58.82 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illustrated by 140 engravings, from ancient manuscripts. Small octavo format. Cloth. Book intact and complete, but rather heavy signs of wear: first few pages foxed and torn, binding rubbed and corners bumped. / Klein-Oktavformat. Leinen. Buch intakt und vollständig, jedoch ziemlich starke Gebrauchsspuren: Erste paar Seiten stockfleckig und eingerissen, Einband berieben und Ecken bestossen.
Seller: Genossenschaft Poete-Näscht, Liestal, Switzerland
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown marbled paper on covers with blue corners and spine, name stamped on cover in gilt. Rubbing on edges and corners. Front board entirely detached. Binding otherwise sound and tight. Pages clean and crisp.
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$81.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper and ink name and date on half title page (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Rear board a bit scuffed, hinges loosening, front and end matter lightly foxed, pencil marginalia with notes thereto on rear endpaper. 1876 Hard Cover. xii, 530, 32 pp. Publisher catalog bound in following text. Green cloth, gilt titles, black and gilt decorations. Color frontispiece showing an ancient chess match, 140 engravings from ancient manuscripts throughout text. Includes extensive index.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$114.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A smart edition of this charming work on the pastimes of the English people from the 1800s, with illustrations throughout. Illustrated with coloured frontispiece and one hundred and forty in-text engravings from ancient manuscripts. A detailed account of the sports and pastimes enjoyed by the people of England, including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles from the earliest period to contemporary time. Written by Joseph Strutt, an English engraver, artist, writer, and antiquary remembered as an "influential but totally neglected figure in the history of art in Britain" - Sir Roy Strong. Edited by William Hone, an English writer and bookseller. In the original full green cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Three quarter leather with marbled board, spine compartments decoratively stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece behind tissue. Illustrated. Scuffed, wear particularly on spine edges, one hinge detached at base
Seller: Quicker than the Eye, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 530 pp. with 140 engravings. Beautifully bound in 3/4 maroon morocco over marbled boards with matching endpapers. A clean, tight, unmarked copy.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated with 140 engravings, from Ancient Manuscripts, colored frontispiece. Edited by William Hone. 530pp. + 32 pages catalogue. Thick 12mo, 3/4 black morocco, marbled edges and end papers. London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. Very good (+).
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$573.32 + shipping
Description: , xii, 530 pages, this is a large paper copy, illustrated with140 engravings from ancient manuscipts, extra illustrated with 40 hand coloured plates Large Paper Edition , boards lightly rubbed, front hinge slightly weakened but holding firm, light spotting at front and rear blanks but textblock and plates nice and clean, book in very good condition , half brown morocco with marbled paper sides, gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt 34 x 17 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom