¶Copac records copies at BL & Leeds only. By the 'Founding Father' of American Tennis. James Dwight, 1852-1917, a graduate of Harvard, travelled to Europe in 1874, and brought home the equipment to play the newly invented game of lawn tennis. He was a participant in the first recorded tournament in the U.S., was a founding member of the U. S. National Lawn Tennis Association in 1881 and participated at Wimbledon in 1884 and 1885. The final advertisement is for Wright & Ditson, manufacturers of every requisite for lawn-tennis, Boston, MA; they were also the publisher for the U.S. edition of this work published in the same year.