The sports and pastimes of the people of England from the earliest period, including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, pageants, processions and pompous spectacles
Joseph Strutt's 1801 survey of English sports and pastimes, here in J. Charles Cox's 1903 Methuen edition, is a historical reference on medieval and early modern English recreation. Its pictures are small black-and-white line plates of archery, hawking, and fencing-style combat, each captioned with the sport it shows, giving a designer ready period detail of figures in costume and action.
