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Riding. Polo. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes
189120467London: Longmans Green and Co 1891. First Edition. Half Morocco. Marbled paper pastedown on boards. Good Plus. J. D. Giles J. Stuart Allan and F. Dadd. Bound attractively in half morocco by Root & Son. 4to. 19 by 14 cm. xii 1 423 pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w plates and drawings in the text. Binding rubbed along joints. A few scratches on the spine leather and unevenness of color. Although most leaves are clean there are leaves afflicted with heavy-ish foxing by which we mean pronounced in some way -- the size and/or darkness of the markings or the clustering of markings. A few leaves with a dampstain and other soiling. The plates on a different glossy paper stock are generally clean. Notwithstanding a fairly attractive shelf presence this copy gives us the impression of a certain grittiness. Longmans, Green, and Co unknown
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