Archibald Sinclair; William Henry — Swimming

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1893. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated guide to swimming from the Badminton Library series. First edition. Badminton Library. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twelve plates, and numerous woodcuts in the text. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive guide to the sport of swimming, with chapters on the teaching of swimming, the art of swimming, diving, plunging, floating, bathing in the open, life-saving, water-polo, training, public baths, the science of swimming and much more. Written by Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, a British politician and leader of the Liberal Party, and William Henry, a British swimmer who was in goal for the Osborne Swimming Club of Manchester that won the gold medal at the 1900 Paris Olympics. Henry was at one time the honorary secretary of the Royal Life Saving Society. Illustrated by Stephen T. Dadd, a British painter and illustrator from photographs by G. Mitchell, a British photographer. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with minor age toning to the extremities and a minor tear to the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: S. T. Dadd; G. Mitchell. Very Good .