A collection of five illustrated volumes on sport from The Badminton Library. Five volumes. The Badminton Library. A collection of volumes on sports and pastimes, from the sporting and publishing project conceived by Longmans Green & Co. and edited by Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort. Between 1885 and 1902 it developed into a series of sporting books which aimed to cover comprehensively all major sports and pastimes. This set contains: Hunting, 1888. Fourth edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and numerous in-text images. Written by Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, a British peer, soldier, and Conservative politician who conceived and edited the project of The Badminton Library which began with this volume, and Mowbray Morris, a British author and journalist. Shooting: Field and Covert, 1892. Fourth edition, revised. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text images. Written by Thomas de Grey, Lord Walsingham, an English politician and amat