A History Of Tennis

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1924. First edition, one of 800 copies. Profusely illustrated after photographs, old engravings, etc. 106 plates on 80 leaves in volume I and 54 plates on 47 leaves in Volume II. xv, 281; viii, 282-580 pp. 2 vols. 4to. Publisher's blue buckram. With front pictorial dust wrapper for each volume laid in. First edition,… Read more

London: Duckworth, 1991 New edition, a facsimile of book first published in 1924, by Oxford Univ. Press. HB. Blue cloth, gilt titles, no dustjacket. xix, 587pp, heavy quarto. With colour plate frontispiece and many b&w photos and illustrations in plates showing the early history of the game. History of tennis from 1800, in Britain, Europe and America. Detailed… Read more