black cloth gilt-titled on front cover
1847 · Boston
by PRESTON, Paul
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.
(Inventory #: preston)