F. G. Aflalo [ed] - The Sports of the World

London, Cassell and Company Limited, [1902]. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this profusely illustrated collection of essays on hunting and sports, bound in half calf. The first subscriber's edition. First published as separate fascicles, and combined in this work. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and many vignette monochrome illustrations. This expansive work contains essays on elk-hunting, sea-fishing in Australia, pheasant shooting, racquets, football lion hunting, revolver shooting, Japanese wrestling, curling, sports with tigers and more. Edited by F. G. Aflalo, with contributors including F. C. Selous, Theodore A. Cook, Colonel Walrond, Eustace Miles, the Baron de Vaux, H. Graces and W. H. Grenfell.Undated, dated by copies held by the British Library. Bound in half calf with cloth to the boards. Externally, very smart with fading to the spine, slight marks to the boards, and minimal rubbing to the joints. Bookplate belonging to 'Gilmour Lundin and Montrave' to the front pastedown with spotting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with only spotting to the front and rear. Very Good . Ill.: Dr Anachoreta; et al. Very Good .

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