White, Herrick, Wier; American Boy's Book of Sports & Games Repository of In-and-Out-Door Amusements Boys & Youth rounders or Town Ball BASEBALL
New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1864 , HARD BACK
Overall Condition is: very good. diagrams & illustrations 10 page chapterof the game o
very good condition, brown pebbly cloth, gold gilt lettering and decoration on cover and spine, top and bottom of spine frayed. Out Door Games; Athletic and Graceful Recreations; Amusements with Pets; Playroom Games for Rainy Days; Evening Amusements; Mechanical and Miscellaneous Amusements. Of great interest to the collector is the 10 page discussion of baseball also referred to as rounders or Town Ball . featuring five illustrations and a diagram of the baseball playing field. This copy has 600 b/w engravings. Some copies of this book were issued with four color-plates, one of which is considered the first color-plate illustration of a baseball game to appear in a book, NO EVIDENCE OF COLOR PLATES HAVING BEEN REMOVED.
REF#:072102