Lord Aberdare

The Story of Tennis

Stanley Paul, London, 1959, first edition

Description and condition:

Green cloth hardback with dustcover, 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inch (8vo), 180 pp., b/w plates.
Dustcover is clipped and has smaller closed tears, now protected. Book is very good or better with faint spotting to top page edges.

Contents:

The history of tennis starting in France in the Middle Ages with a game of hand-ball, which soon, with the development of the racket, became the favourite game of King and Court.