Thiselton Dyer, Thomas Firminger

Great Men At Play

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Remington & Co. London 1889 First Edition Two volumes. 8vo. [235 x 144 x 67 mm]. viii, 337 pp; viii, 341 pp. Bound in the original green cloth, the spines lettered in gilt, decorated paper endleaves, plain edges. A fine copy. With chapters on Games, Recreations, Card Playing, Field Sports, The Turf, Gambling, Horsemanship, Angling, Walking, Musical Taste, Gardening and Agriculture, Hobbies, Peculiarities, Favourite Dishes, Drinking Habits, Water-Drinking, Smoking Habits, Snuff-Taking, Physical Characteristics, Dress, Faculty of Memory, Brilliant Talkers, Money Matters and Wit and Humour. The text contains anecdotes of almost every prominent literary and political figure of the 18th and 19th century.

• GBP 250.00 > other currencies
• ordernr.: ebc2441

• bookseller: George Bayntun (GREAT BRITAIN)