The Sportfolio - Portraits and Biographies of Heroes and Heroines of Sports and Pastime - 1896

Title

Portraits and Biographies of Heroes and Heroines of Sports and Pastime

Author

The Sportfolio 

Year

1896

Publisher

Georges Newnes Limited, London 

Description

Complete with 140 full-page photogravure portraits and detailed biographical notes - spanning cricket, football, golf, tennis, rowing, athletics, and more. This large-format work captures the athletes who defined Victorian leisure and competition. It offers one of the earliest visual records of sporting icons before the age of mass media.

[4], 140 pp.

Condition

Rubbing to extremities of spine, small loss at spine center, some markings to pages.