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Marshall, Rev F (editor)
Football The Rugby Union Game
Publisher: Cassell & Co, London;
Date of Publication: 1892
Stock Code: 4793
FIRST EDITION. Octavo. xvi, 515 pp,[1], 16 (publishers’ catalogue). Frontispiece photograph of the “Old Crocks” with tissue guard, plus numerous illustrations in text. Book Condition: Good. Publishers’ dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board and blind border to boards. Floral endpapers. Cover cloth scuffed and rubbed with wear at spine tips and corners, bruised corners to lower board and 1-inch split at lower rear hinge. Inner hinges wesk; ownership inscription dated 1892 to ffep. History of the rise and progress of the game from the foundation of the Union in 1871. Scarce in hardcover. £50.00