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Title

Handbook of winter sports : embracing: skating, (on the ice and on rollers), rink-ball, curling, ice-boating, and American football, together with the special code of rules for prize skating of the skating congress, and records of matches at base-ball and cricket on the ice. The whole illustrated with diagrams

Author

Chadwick, Henry, 1824-1908

Publisher

Beadle and Adams, 98 William Street

Publication Date

1879

Copyright Date

1879

Series

Beadle's dime handbooks

Number

Dime handbooks of games and pastimes ;

Subjects

Winter sports--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Skating--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Roller skating--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Figure skating--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Curling--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Ice-boats--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Football--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc

Page Count

59 pages

Notes

Cover illustration engraved by N. Orr, N.Y.
"Copyrighted in 1879 by Beadle & Adams, 98 William Street. Specially engraved orange covers (Type VI-Handbooks), 59 pages plus one blank and six pages of advertising. The booklet carries advertisements of Peck & Snyder, dealers in sporting goods."--Johannsen, A. House of Beadle and Adams and its dime and nickel novels, volume 1, page 380, no. 24.

Location

Johannsen Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University.

Rights & Use

Use of this public-domain resource is unrestricted, however, attribution is customary and requested.
No Copyright - Public Domain

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