Author: Hargrove, E[ly. 1741 - 1818]
Title: ANECDOTES Of ARCHERY; From the Earliest Times to the Year 1791. Including an Account of the Most Famous Archers of Ancient and Modern Times; with some curious Particulars in the Life of Robert Fitz-Ooth Earl of Huntington, Vulgarly called Robin Hood. The Present State of Archery, with the Different Societies in Great Britain, Particularly those of Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Durham
Description: York: Printed for E. Hargrove, Bookseller, Knaresbro'; And sold by all the Booksellers of York, Leeds, and Ripon, 1792. 1st edition (Lake & Wright, p. 137). Later green half-morocco binding (by MacDonald, for Charles Scribners's Sons) with green cloth boards. TEG. Dark green eps. 104 pp (including Index). Frontis depiciting 'Medal of the Yorkshire Archers', folding plate showing the [fictional] pedigree of Robin Hood & a plate of the 'Medal of the Darlington Archers'. 12mo: A - H6 I4. C2 missigned as C3; C3 missigned as C2. 5-7/8" x 3-3/4". Spine leather lightly sunned. A VG+ copy. A somewhat popular book on the subject, reissued thrice since publication (once being photographic facsimile in 1970), however this first edition a fairly uncommon item not often seen on the commercial market, coming to auction only twice these past 30 some-odd years, the last being 1988.

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