Glig Gamena Angel Deod,

or the Sports and Pastimes of the People of England:

including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May-Games, Mummeries, Pageants, Processions, and Pompous Spectacles, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.

by Joseph Strutt

illustrated with Engravings selected from Ancient Paintings. 

Second edition.  London:  Printed by T. Bensley, 1810   

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.  

• Quarter leatherbound covers with marbled boards, blind stamping and gilt.  
• Boards show some wear to shoulders, smudges, scuffing, edgewear  Corners are bumped, worn, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spine has label with gilt text and ornamented bands; is worn especially at ends, which are chipped and worn.  See photos. 
• Binding is largely secure, with some separation at top board. 
• Marble end papers/ pastedowns show a little foxing on reverse, a crease to rear fep.  
• Frontispiece is present.  
• Illustrations, 39 engraved plates in sepia tone, are bright and clear, with scattered foxing.  See photos.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits some marginal toning, some smudges in margins, light edgewear, a couple closed tears.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have marbling to match boards. 
• PS2026.0407

357 pages. 9 x 11.25 inches

Second edition.  Large quarto.  Contemporary quarter tan calf, with marbled paper boards, blind tooling, gilt stamping and title.  With accounts of hunting and hawking, archery, stone throwing, all sorts of ball games including tennis and golf, jousts and tournaments, to miracle plays, minstrels, Morris dancing, animal baiting, and even sedentary and solitary games.  Frontispiece engraved in sepia, plus 39 engraved plates to illustrate the text.  Thick boards show wear at the hinges, and heavy edgewear at the foot.  Untouched and unmarked original condition, scattered foxing to the plates, some smudges and softening in the text block.  Condition is overall Very Good-.  

This is an important history of recreational activities and traditional celebrations in the British Isles.  Joseph Strutt (1749–1802) was an English engraver, artist, antiquary, and writer.  He is often called the first English social historian.  Unlike many of his contemporaries, who doubted the reliability of artistic sources as historical evidence, Strutt employed a comparative analysis of the manuscripts.  He was one of the first to realize the potential value of visual material as a historical source;  he showed an early appreciation of the intrinsic merit of medieval art and was unusual in producing near-facsimile engraved reproductions of the originals.  In his own lifetime Manners and Customs was probably the most successful of Strutt's antiquarian works, but Sports and Pastimes has enjoyed greater longevity and has been frequently reprinted, as recently as in 1973.   

Second Edition.  Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street.  The group of publishers is long:  White and Co.; Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme; Lackington, Allen, and Co.; John and Arthur Arch; John Murray; John Harding; Crosby and Co.; and Charles and Robert Baldwin.  

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