First edition. 4to. (lvi), 302, (2) pp. Illustrated with 39 color engraved plates. Contemporary brown calf, rebacked, stamped in gilt, extremities worn. corners bumped, both hinges starting; marbled edges and endpapers; scattered foxing and offsetting from plates; black morocco book-plate of investment banker and philanthropist John M. Schiff mounted to front paste-down.

First edition of Joseph Strutt's work on all forms of mental and physical recreation, with several of the plates taken from miniatures of medieval manuscripts.