"THE LAST TEN YEARS HAVE CERTAINLY BEEN THE MOST EVENTFUL IN THE HISTORY OF BRITISH SKIING AND THAT OF THE CONTINENT GENERALLY": THE WINTER SPORTS VOLUME OF BRITISH SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN, HANDSOMELY BOUND

(SKIING AND WINTER SPORTS) HUTCHINSON, Horace G., editor. British Sports and Sportsmen. Golf, Athletics, Tennis, Hockey and Other Ball Games, Winter Sports. London: Sports and Sportsmen, circa 1935. Folio (12 by 15-1/2 inches), contemporary full maroon morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $1600.

Limited edition of the volume of British sports and sportsmen that features winter sports—including a chapter on skiing by R.W. Cooper, and chapters on skating, curling and ice hockey—as well as golf and tennis, number 665 of 1000 copies, handsomely bound.

"There is hardly a sportsman of note, of whom our fathers have told us, whose lineaments are not shown and his biography sketched." Illustrated with numerous full-page tissue-guarded photogravures and a vast number of photographic illustrations, with personal narratives from the experiences of various sportsmen from throughout the British Empire, biographies, and articles by leading sportswriters of the day. This volumes includes R.W. Cooper's chapter on Winter Sports, chiefly skiing, with a brief mention of tobogganing. Also includes separate chapters on skating, curling, and ice hockey. With many portraits, plates, and in-text illustrations of sportsmen and sports scenes. In total, 13 volumes of British Sports and Sportsmen were issued separately from 1908-35.

Fine condition, a handsome volume.