Author: MARSHALL, JULIAN.
Title: The Annals Of Tennis.
Description: Facsimile Edition; Impl. 8vo; pp. [viii], 226; illustrated frontispiece, illustrated with 44 wood-engravings on 26 leaves, appendix, index, original green decorated cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, stamped black and gold design with a decoration of two tennis rackets in gilt and three balls beneath, in the centre on front cover, name on front endpaper otherwise an exceptional fine copy of one the most important works on the subject. Baltimore, Maryland; Racquet Sports Information & Services Inc.; 1973. Julian Marshall was tennis correspondent to "The Field" and some chapters in the book first appeared in that magazine in 1876 and 1877. The author describes his work as "the first attempt at a General History and Description of Tennis" Marshall codified the rules of real tennis in 1872 and in 1877, along with two others he produced a revised version of rules in time for the first Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship.

Keywords: Lawn Tennis History sport