Croquet Up To Date: Containing The Ideas And Teachings Of The Leading Players And Champions Edited By Arthur Lillie With Illustrations [First Edition – Publisher’S Original Binding] Arthur Lillie Hon. Secretary For Croquet, All England Lawn Tennis And Croquet Club, Wimbledon

London: Longmans, Green & Co., FIRST Edition, 1900. Publisher’s original cloth binding with gilt titles to the spine and front board, black pictorial illustration to the front board, gently worn and rubbed. Pages hand cut, tanned but clean, illustrated with photographic plates and many illustrations in the text. Pagination: xviii, 313pp. Provenance – inscription to the front ‘Mabel M. L. Arnott’. Approximately 9 1/8 inches tall (23.2cm). Condition Report Externally Spine – good condition – gilt titles, worn and rubbed. Joints – good condition – sound, rubbed. Corners – good condition – bumped and worn. Boards – good condition – full cloth, gilt titles to the front board, marked and worn. Page edges – good condition – top edges darkened, all tanned and untrimmed. See above and photos. Internally Hinges – good condition – sound. Paste downs – good condition – tanned. End papers – good condition – tanned, inscription. Title – good condition – tanned. Pages – good condition – tanned, some foxing. Binding – good condition – worn. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1900 Binding: Hardback