Various — A Collection from the Badminton Library

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1886-1898. First edition. Cloth. A collection of seventeen illustrated volumes on sport from The Badminton Library, many of which are first editions. Seventeen volumes. The Badminton Library. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text images. A collection of volumes on sports and pastimes, from the sporting and publishing project conceived by Longmans Green & Co. and edited by Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort. Between 1885 and 1902 it developed into a series of sporting books which aimed to cover comprehensively all major sports and pastimes. With contributions from authors such as: Arthur Coventry, Hon. R. H. Lyttelton, Captain Robert Weir, Clive Phillipps-Wolley, and Lilly Grove, amongst others. Illustrated by artists such as: John Sturgess, A. Lang, R. A. H. Mitchell, J. Wolf, Percy Macquoid, Lucien Davis, C. E. Brock, and many more. This set contains: Racing and Steeple-Chasing, 1886. Second edition. Hunting, 1886. Third edition. Fishing: Salmon and Trout, 1888. Fourth edition. Athletics and Football, 1888. New edition. Illustrated with six plates. Collated complete. Driving, 1889. Second edition. Cricket, 1889. Third edition. Illustrated with ten plates. Collated complete. Cycling, 1889. Second edition. Riding and Polo, 1891. First edition. Illustrated with seventeen plates. Collated complete. Mountaineering, 1892. First edition. Illustrated with twelve plates. Collated complete. Skating and Figure Skating, 1892. First edition. Illustrated with eleven plates. Collated complete. Big Game Shooting, 1894. Complete in two volumes. First Edition. Volume one is illustrated with nineteen plates and volume two is illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated complete. Dancing, 1895. First edition. Sea Fishing, 1895. First edition. Illustrated with twenty-one plates. Collated complete. The Poetry of Sport, 1896. First Edition. Illustrated with thirty-one plates. Collated complete. Billiards, 1896. First edition. Illustrated with ten plates. Collated complete. Rowing and Punting, 1898. First edition. Illustrated with nineteen plates. Collated complete. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spines with the odd small mark to the boards. The odd small split to the cloth at the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Light spotting and age toning to the endpapers with the occasional ink inscription to the front endpaper. Newspaper article pasted to the front pastedown of Racing and Steeple-Chasing, Fishing, and Hunting. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .