DWIGHT, James. Lawn-Tennis. "Pastime" Office. [1886]
Font. ad., 6pp illus. ads. Orig. green pictorial cloth; sl. dulled & rubbed. v.g.
¶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.