The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Tennis : Lawn Tennis ; Racquets : Fives by His Grace the Eighth Duke of Beaufort [Editor] - 1903

Longmans, Green, and Co. London, 1890. Third edition. Hardcover. Good/Without dust jacket (if issue. Sold as a good reading copy only due to condition but also the scarcity of original editions. Octavo, 7 5/8" tall, 426 pages, illustrated brown cloth. A good, original hardcover edition with shelf wear and fraying to the back strip at top and bottom of the spine, fore-corner tips through to boards paper moderately yellowed, with foxing to margins BUT binding broken signatures separated. Without dust jacket if issued.

Southampton: Ashford Press Publishing, 1987. Republished . Cloth Bound Boards. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1987 Republished from the original of 1903. Size octavo, 491 pages including index. Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the front cover and spine and gilt arms of the Duke of Beaufort to the front cover also. Condition fine, a very clean copy.

Ashford Press, Southampton, 1987. Fine Facsimile Reprint. Hardback. Fine copy in the publisher's gilt-blocked red buckram. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 491 pages; The original illustrations are impressively well-reproduced.