Francis Willughby's Book of Games
Subtitle: A Seventeenth Century Treatise on Sports, Games, and Pastimes
Contributors: David Cram (Editor); Jeffrey L. Forgeng (Editor); Dorothy Johnston (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781859284605
Subjects: General; Theater - Playwriting; Europe - Great Britain - General; Amusements; History; Crafts / Hobbies; History: World; Games; Leisure; Social history; Sport, Travel and Leisure Interests; United Kingdom, Great Britain; c 1600 to c 1700; Early works to 1800
First sentence: The biography of Francis Willughby (1635-1672), author of the Book of Games, is at once both accessible and obscure.