Mitchell, S WeirBiblio.com
Riding.Polo illustrated by G.D. Giles Frank Dadd and J. Stuart Allan
1891ref. AQ15462London: Longmans Green and Co 1891. xiii 1 423pp 1. With a half title and frontispiece. Original publisher's decorative cloth. Some rubbing and marking to extremities and spine some foxing to text. Both hinges cracking with some splitting to endpapers. Some quires with unopened leaves. Later armorial bookplate of the Barons Raglan bearing the name 'Cefntilla' to FEP. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes was an ambitious sports publishing project conceived by Henry Somerset 8th Duke of Beaufort the name derived from the Duke's country house Badminton and dedicated to the Prince of Wales 'one of the best and keenest sportsmen of our time'. Between 1885 and 1902 some 33 separate works were published each profusely illustrated detailing the history and details of the sporting activity in question. Following the death of Fitzroy James Henry Somerset 1st Baron Raglan 1788-1855 commander of allied forces during the Crimean War 1623 of his friends admirers and comrades purchased the estate of Cefntilla Court in Monmouthshire Wales presenting the home to Richard Somerset 2nd Baron Raglan 1817-1884 and his heirs in perpetuity as a memorial in remembrance of his father's contribution to the British military. . Second edition. 8vo. Longmans, Green and Co hardcover
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