SPARKES, William.

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The Young Archer's Guide; First and only edition. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, "archery was revived as a fashionable pastime among the English aristocracy thanks to a nostalgic taste for the gothic and medieval" (Johnes, p. 193). WorldCat records only four institutional holdings: the British Library, and the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and California.

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