Description (and please see photographs): Messrs. Fores’s Piccadilly, W. London. Sporting Notes and Sketches magazine was published from 1884 to 1912, this is a COMPLETE set of 29 volumes bound in publishers uniformly red pictorial cloth. Contents includes Sports, Sports Stories, Bicycling, Billiards, Boxing, Cricket, Curling, Equestrian, Fox Hunting, Golf, Horse Racing, Sailing, etc.&nbs; Original dark endpapers and all pages are gilt edged, 240 to 300 pages per volume (approx.). 928 plates – 32 per volume – after Finch Mason, R.M. Alexander, Cuthbert Bradley and others. Most are tinted duotone lithographs, black and white plates in the later volumes. Most volumes contain 6 to 22 pages of publishers catalogue in the back. Each volume measures approx. 6″ x 9″ x 1.5″. 55 lbs. shipping weight.
Fores’s Sporting Notes & Sketches UK 29 Vols Complete Set 1884-1912, 928 Plates
Description (and please see photographs): Messrs. Fores’s Piccadilly, W. London. Sporting Notes and Sketches magazine was published from 1884 to 1912, this is a COMPLETE set of 29 volumes bound in publishers uniformly red pictorial cloth. Contents includes Sports, Sports Stories, Bicycling, Billiards, Boxing, Cricket, Curling, Equestrian, Fox Hunting, Golf, Horse Racing, Sailing, etc.&nbs; Original dark endpapers and all pages are gilt edged, 240 to 300 pages per volume (approx.). 928 plates – 32 per volume – after Finch Mason, R.M. Alexander, Cuthbert Bradley and others. Most are tinted duotone lithographs, black and white plates in the later volumes. Most volumes contain 6 to 22 pages of publishers catalogue in the back. Each volume measures approx. 6″ x 9″ x 1.5″. 55 lbs. shipping weight.