Title: A Sporting Pilgrimage. Riding to Hounds, Golf, Rowing, Football, Club and University Athletics. Studies in English Sport, Past and Present. Author: Whitney, Caspar Place: New York Publisher: Harper Date: 1895 Description: xii, 397 pp. Many plates and text illustrations after photographs and sketches. 8vo, original pebbled red cloth, spine & front cover lettered and decorated in gilt and black. First Edition. Caspar Whitney (1862-1929) was a gentleman-sportsman who knew everybody and tried everything. Less physically adventurous than his usual writing, this book is a survey of amateur sport in England, intended to emphasize the moral and social value of such activities. The three chapters on golf occupy 67 pages. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine slightly faded, light wear to edges; name erased from head of title page with resulting damage to paper; else very good. Item number: 186789
Title: A Sporting Pilgrimage. Riding to Hounds, Golf, Rowing, Football, Club and University Athletics. Studies in English Sport, Past and Present. Author: Whitney, Caspar Place: New York Publisher: Harper Date: 1895 Description: xii, 397 pp. Many plates and text illustrations after photographs and sketches. 8vo, original pebbled red cloth, spine & front cover lettered and decorated in gilt and black. First Edition. Caspar Whitney (1862-1929) was a gentleman-sportsman who knew everybody and tried everything. Less physically adventurous than his usual writing, this book is a survey of amateur sport in England, intended to emphasize the moral and social value of such activities. The three chapters on golf occupy 67 pages. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine slightly faded, light wear to edges; name erased from head of title page with resulting damage to paper; else very good. Item number: 186789
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