The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Stock No. 8658

Authors: Joseph, STRUTT | William, HONE (Editor)

London : Thomas Tegg, 1831

Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pomposus Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
Illustrated by one hundred and forty engravings, in which are represented most of the popular diversions; selected from ancient paintings.
A new edition, with an index by William Hone. Crown 4to (270 mm); lxvii, 420 pp; half green cloth over silk covered boards, edges of spine and corners rubbed, as are the head and tail of the spine; title in gilt letters to spine; marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate of Rt. Hon. Dodgson Hamilton Maddon laid down inside the front cover; scrawled inscriptions to the endpaper.
A solid and clean copy.

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