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Lot 328
Sale 532 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Dec 6, 2017
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STRUTT, Joseph (1749-1802). Glig-Gamena Angel-Deod, or the Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. London: T. Bensley, 1810.
4to (291 x 228 mm). 40 hand-colored engraved plates. (Spotting and offsetting throughout, minor tears or losses to text leaves, not affecting text.) Contemporary half brown morocco, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt, edges gilt (rubbing to extremities). Second edition which includes an insight into the rural and domestic recreations, may-games, mummeries, pageants, processions and pompous spectacles from the earliest period until the 18th- and 19th-centuries.
