Sports.- H[owlett] (R[obert]) The school of recreation: or, The gentlemans tutor, to those most ingenious exercises of hunting. Racing. Hawking. Riding. Cock-fighting. Fowling. Fishing. Shooting. Bowling. Tennis. Ringing. Billiards, first edition, engraved frontispiece, advertisement f. at end, woodcut head-piece and decorative initial, frontispiece worn at fore-edge with loss, preliminaries little chipped, a few small wormholes / trace to upper outer margins, affecting some page numbers and the odd letter, closely trimmed at head, just touching the odd headline, some creasing and soiling, lightly browned, disbound, [Schwerdt I, p.225; Thacher p.451; W&S p.110; Wing H3194], 12mo, printed for H. Rodes, next door to the Bear-Tavern near Bride-Lane in Fleet-Street, 1684. sold not subject to return.

⁂ 'a scarce and comprehensive booklet on a great variety of British sports' (Schwerdt). The section on tennis includes a poem 'The Tennis-Court'. Also included are billiards, bell-ringing, bowling, racing and angling.

Provenance: 'Samuel Baker bought this book by Bedlam Wall Morefields November ye 24 1736'.