BENJAMIN TABART, publisher The Book of Games; or, A history of the juvenile sports practiced at the Kingston Academy London: Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile and School Library, 1805. 12mo. (5¼ x 3¼in; 132 x 81mm), engraved frontispiece of "Cricket" and 23 plates (verso of frontispiece with adhesive tape repair at inner margin, similar repairs to several plates and text leaves), red half morocco. Provenance : J.W. Goldman (binding and pasted-over bookplate). FIRST EDITION, published at 3s. 6d., and also available at 5s. with the plates coloured. "The full-page plates are carefully drawn and show in detail children's activities indoors and out ... altogether, a book to bring great pleasure to its readers" (Marjorie Moon). Besides cricket, which is described on pp. 99-104, the games include trap-ball and foot-ball; together with the 1812 edition of the same work, uniformly bound for Goldman. NO COPY IN BL. Moon Benjamin Tabart's Juvenile Library 14; Osborne Collection II, p. 845 (imperfect copy); Goldman p. 31; Padwick 7115. (2)
BENJAMIN TABART, publisher The Book of Games; or, A history of the juvenile sports practiced at the Kingston Academy London: Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile and School Library, 1805. 12mo. (5¼ x 3¼in; 132 x 81mm), engraved frontispiece of "Cricket" and 23 plates (verso of frontispiece with adhesive tape repair at inner margin, similar repairs to several plates and text leaves), red half morocco. Provenance : J.W. Goldman (binding and pasted-over bookplate). FIRST EDITION, published at 3s. 6d., and also available at 5s. with the plates coloured. "The full-page plates are carefully drawn and show in detail children's activities indoors and out ... altogether, a book to bring great pleasure to its readers" (Marjorie Moon). Besides cricket, which is described on pp. 99-104, the games include trap-ball and foot-ball; together with the 1812 edition of the same work, uniformly bound for Goldman. NO COPY IN BL. Moon Benjamin Tabart's Juvenile Library 14; Osborne Collection II, p. 845 (imperfect copy); Goldman p. 31; Padwick 7115. (2)
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