Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture and British Sport. Vols VIII (January to June 1920) & IX (July to December 1902). Cet article n’est pas disponible.Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture and British Sport. Vols VIII (January to June 1920) & IX (July to December 1902)

First editions of Wodehouse's contribution of four pieces to these two volumes: The Pugilist in Fiction, Some Football Facts, and Wrestling at the Halls (all Vol. VIII); and Early Days of International Boxing (Vol. IX). 8vo., 2 volumes in uniform binding of red coarse three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Offsetting to endpapers in both volumes. Regarded as the world's first bodybuilding magazine, Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture was founded in 1898 and ran until June 1907. Among its contributors were some who found greater fame elsewhere: the music hall comedian Dan Leno, H.H. Munro ('Saki') and P.G. Wodehouse. There is no author of Some Football Facts credited in the volume, and there is no attribution either in McIlvaine or its Addendum. However, Wodehouse records in his cash journal, Money Received for Literary Work, that he co-wrote the piece with one F. Overy. As Wodehouse's biographer Frances Donaldson observed, it was vitally important to the boy Plum that he was 'above average at games'. Luckily, he was known at school as 'a noted athlete, a fine footballer and cricketer [and] a boxer', and indeed sport inspired much of his earliest writings. Wodehouse's contributions apart, these two volumes provide a plethora of information about sport in Britain in the early Edwardian period. Included in these issues are the 6 instalments of the intriguingly named Types of Women Athletes written by E.K. and L.M. Reader focusing on swimming "Water Nymphs at the Royal Aquarium" featuring Alice Sinclair, Annie Luker and Minnie Johnson; fencing featuring the actress Esme Beringer; more swimming feayuring Agnes Beckwith; weight-lifting featuring Miss Vulcana; gymnastics featuring Miss Gertrella, the phantom dancer-gymnast; and acrobatics featuring the Sisters Macarte and the Lizette Troup. McIlvaine D128.4-6.…