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How to Get Strong and How to Stay So

Name: How to Get Strong and How to Stay So
Author: William Blaikie

Book Description

First edition. Illustrated with eight in-text figures. A fine, bright copy; endpapers with small faults, especially a little old glue on rear pastedown, and shallow corner of ffep reattached with archival tape; a couple pages corner-creased.

Dealer Notes

Reported to have been the most sold book on physical culture / athletics in the 19th century, having been frequently reprinted, not only in the US, but also in Toronto and London. The author, a lawyer by profession, was a strong advocate of a healthy, active life. The ‘Contents’ pages give an idea of his philosophy and training ideals; the illustrations of the rowers whose bodies are “warped” and “imperfectly developed in Muscles not used in Rowing” says it all (see photos).

Author William Blaikie

Date 1879

Binding Publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth

Publisher New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers

Condition Fine copy

Pages 296 p.

Price: £55.00

Offered by Wilfrid de Freitas

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