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[Steve May]

Those of you who are historians of the game may have heard of a book called Rugby Football during the Nineteenth Century: A Collection of Contemporary Essays about the Game which was published in 1896 as part of the Isthmian Library.

A good quality first edition of this will set you back perhaps £300-400.

However, a facsimile is now available on Amazon at £11.49

I've just ordered mine so I'm not sure what the contents actually are but I imagine it's a good companion to the Frank Marshall book "Football: The Rugby Union Game" from a few years earlier, which is also now available from Amazon. I'm pleased to say I do have a first edition of that book, albeit a rather battered one.

Both books are from print on demand publishers.

Certainly the Frank Marshall book is a must-read for students of the early history of the game. I'll let you know what the other one is like.

[Padge]

Check this out.

http://www.archive.o...byuni00marsrich

[Steve May]

Check this out.

http://www.archive.o...byuni00marsrich

Great site! Never seen that before

Just found the other book above as well - here

Downable for Kindle from that site for free.

[Steve May]

This looks like it has an interesting chapter as well

And this..

What a great site!

[Steve May]

Just found this list of early rugby books.

Looks like my Marshall 1st edition is worth a few bob. I didn't pay very much for it, so that's nice.