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Cotswold Games : Annalia Dubrensia 1636
Author(s): Dovers, Robert; Vyvyan, E R (editor)
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | Yes |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | Good |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Tabard Press |
| Publication Year: | 1970 |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| Book ID: | 010218 |
| Catalogue(s): | Poetry, Poetical Criticism and Poets ◇ Local Interest and History - West Midlands ◇ Local Interest and History - South West |
xvi, 88pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Sun-faded bottom edge of front boards. Top text block edge dusty and foxing. Green endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, light chipping to edges, lightly bumped spine ends, price clipped. 8vo. Facsimile of the 1878 edition. The Cotswold Olimpick Games is an annual public celebration of games and sports, now held near Chipping Norton each Spring. The games, first held in 1612, originated with a local lawyer, Robert Dover. The Annalia Dubrensia (Annals of Dover), is collection of poems praising Dover and his achievements in promoting and managing the games, first published in 1636.
Keywords:
Olympic Games
Cotswold Games
history of sport
poetry
Robert Dover
