The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes

An extensive and charming set on Edwardian sports and recreational past times, typical of the English country aristocrat, including fishing, shooting, and tennis. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, an extensive selection of works, edited by British peer and Master of the Horse Charles Somerset, Eighth Duke of Beaufort, and assisted by Alfred E. T. Watson. Published by Longmans, Green, and Co. between 1895-1906.In half morocco, half orange cloth, with each volume containing a frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations.This charming series aimed to cover all popular sports and recreational within the Edwardian era, including cricket, tennis, and fishing. With the addition of hunting, shooting and motoring, many saw the series as particularly applicable to the English country aristocrat, with the series being named after the famous country house.- Golf, written by Horace G. Hutchinson, contains all thirty-three illustrated plates by Thomas Hodge and Harry Furniss. Collated complete. (1902, seventh edition).- Motors and Motor Driving, written by Lord Northcliffe, contains all sixteen illustrated plates by H.M. Brock and H. Tringham. Collated complete. (1906, fourth edition).- Tennis, written by J.M Heathcote, Lawn Tennis, written by C.G. Heathcotes, Rackets, written by E.O.P. Bouverie and Fives, written by A.C. Ainger. Revised by G.E.H. Ross and Herbert Chipp. Contains all thirteen illustrated plates. Collated complete. (1903, new edition).- Billiards, written by Major W. Broadfoot, with all eleven illustrated plates by Lucien Davis, including A Winning Game, erroneously marked as an in-text illustration. Collated complete. (1902, new impression).- Fishing: Salmon and Trout, written by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell, with all eight illustrated plates, and a colour frontispiece by Charles Whimper. Collated complete. (1906, tenth impression).- Fishing: Pike and other Coarse Fish, written by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell, contains all six illustrated plates (1903, ninth revised edition).- Cricket, written by A.G. Steel and R.H. Lyttleton, with all thirteen illustrated plates, including engravings by Lucien Davis. Collated complete. (1904, seventh edition).- Big Game Shooting: Volume I, written by Clive Phillips-Worley, with all twenty illustrated plates by Charles Whymper, J. Wolf and H. Willink. Collated complete. (1902, new impression).- Big Game Shooting: Volume II, written by Clive Phillips-Worley, with all seventeen illustrated plates, including engravings by Charles Whymper. Collated complete. (1895, second edition).- Shooting: Field and Covert, written by Lord Walsingham and Ralph Payne-Gallwey, with all fourteen illustrated plates, including those by A.J. Stuart Wortley, Harper Pennington, Charles Whymper, J.H. Oswald and G.E. Lodge. (1906, eighth impression, third edition).- Shooting: Moor and Marsh, written by Lord Walsingham and Ralph Payne-Gallwey, with all eight illustrated plates, including those by A.J. Stuart Wortley, Harper Pennington, Charles Whymper, J.G. Millais and G.E. Lodge. Collated complete. (1902, new impression).- Hunting, written by the Eighth Duke of Beaufort and Mowbry Morris, with all five illustrated plates, by J. Sturgess, J. Charlton, G.D. Giles and A.C. Sealy. (1906, new edition). In half morocco, half orange cloth. Externally, smart with the small odd mark to cloth boards. Fading to the spines, heavier to Cricket, Billiards, Big Game Shooting (vol.I), Shooting: Moor and Marsh, Fishing (Pike and Coarse) and Gold. Rubbing marks to spines of Tennis, Motors, Shooting: Field and Covert, Hunting and Fishing: Salmon and Trout, heavier to Big Game Hunting (vol. II). Slight rubbing to joints, with the occasional sign of edgewear. Bumping to the extremities of Tennis and Big Game Shooting (vol. II), with small lift to calf. Black end papers are clean, with the rare faint mark, slightly heavier to rear of Big Big Game Shooting (vol. II). Internally, firmly bound, with minor wear to hinge between front free.…