An Almanac Of Twelve Sports

An Almanac of Twelve Sports is first published in late 1897, the included calendar was for 1898 and subsequent editions had a calendar appropriate for the year following publication. Only the month is printed on the same page as the picture. Each month's verse is printed on the reverse of the picture of the preceding month, so that it is opposite its own picture when the book is open.

This book is a short collection of a dozen poems and one for each month of the year - two-page calendar for 1898 followed by twelve color woodblocks by Nicholson with verses by Kipling on opposing pages, whose language is short but lively and interesting. Each month illustrates a different most popular sports at the end of the 19th century: "Hunting," "Racing," "Boating," "Fishing," "Skating," "Boxing," "Golf," "Shooting," "Archery," etc.

This book is a short collection of a dozen poems and one for each month of the year - two-page calendar for 1898 followed by twelve color woodblocks by Nicholson with verses by Kipling on opposing pages, whose language is short but lively and interesting. Each month illustrates a different most popular sports at the end of the 19th century: "Hunting," "Racing," "Boating," "Fishing," "Skating," "Boxing," "Golf," "Shooting," "Archery," etc.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.