Paul Preston's Book of Gymnastics
or Sports for Youth. A Legacy, to promote the Health and Long Life of His Youthful Friends
- black cloth gilt-titled on front cover
- Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1847
Paul Preston's Book of Gymnastics: Or Sports for Youth. A Legacy, To Promote the Health and Long Life of His Youthful Friends. Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1847. Woodcut frontispiece demonstrating stretching + many small vignettes and diagrams throughout showing exercises on parallel and horizontal bars, horses, climbing , running, pulling the rope, &c. Square 8vo, 168pp; black cloth gilt-titled on front cover, left side of spine chipped along edges and on top/bottom, original pink paper endpapers intact. Early American work on childhood exercise, first published 1842.
Details
Title
Paul Preston's Book of Gymnastics
Author
PRESTON, Paul
Binding
black cloth gilt-titled on front cover
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Munroe & Francis: Boston
Date
1847
Edition
Probable 2nd edition
Size
Square 8vo
Pages
168pp