''Athletic Sports'', extract in bindings, pages 147 to 158 with illustrations, covering rackets and fives, tennis and pallone, lawn tennis, and badmin
£150 - £200
''Athletic Sports'', extract in bindings, pages 147 to 158 with illustrations, covering rackets and fives, tennis and pallone, lawn tennis, and badminton, with a reference to spharistike and stating that ''turf, asphalte or concrete are best suited for the purposes'', the Victorian publication concluding ''as to lawn tennis, we think it is likely to maintain its place in history as long as cricket. It has already displaced croquet and to a large extent rackets. In fact, we cannot but regard it as likely to become a truly national amusement''; sold together with a hand coloured page from ''Punch'' 3rd September 1913 with cartoon by F.H. Townsend, ''Since the introduction of Tarmac the surface of many roads resembles a cement tennis court more than an ordinary highway Road Boards report.'' (2) not illustrated