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Hardback. Etat : Good. Inns of Sport (1949) Whitbread & Co. Ltd Hardback Raise a pint to Britain?s sporting past with Inns of Sport , a charming 1949 celebration from Whitbread & Co. Ltd that fuses the country?s two greatest obsessions: sport and ale . This illustrated volume meanders through the lanes and byways of England, stopping off at cricket pavilions, racecourses, boxing gyms, and riversides?always finding an atmospheric pub close at hand. More than just a promotional piece, this is a lovingly penned paean to the local, where publicans swap tales of rowing legends and corner-table football punditry is practically a sport in itself. Think village greens and tankards, oars and horse brasses, all wrapped in post-war optimism and the comforting smell of pipe smoke. Our copy at Crappy Old Books may have a splash of age-related foxing (which only adds character), but the spirit of the thing remains: a warm fireside browse for the nostalgist, the pub lover, or the weekend sportsman. Cheers to the days when the final whistle meant one thing? last orders . 54 pages, 7 colour plates and 26 illustrations in black and white. No dustcover.…

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series: The Whitbread library. Physical description: 53 pages, illustrations (some color) 15 cm. Subjects: Whitbread and Company; Brewing industry; Great Britain. 1 Kg.…

8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, illustrated title, 16plates on 14 and numerous facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text, presentation inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Catalogue of the collection of printing specimens and artefacts at the famous Fleet Street pub. Lists 140 items together with essays on The Printed Page by A. Lloyd-Taylor and The Printed Illustration by John Lewis.…

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series: The Whitbread library. Physical description: 53 pages, illustrations (some color) 15 cm. Subjects: Whitbread and Company; Brewing industry; Great Britain. 1 Kg.…

11 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured, tinted and monochrome illustrations (many full-page) throughout, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, one or two volumes with neat signatures on endpapers; original series bnding of pictorial boards, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper, a few wrappers chipped at heads of backstrips. LOOSELY INSERTED ARE 1)PUBLISHER'S PRINTED PROSPECTUS FOR THE SERIES; 2) T.L.s. FROM W. H. WHITBREAD, CHAIRMAN. The set comprises 1: Whitbread's Brewery (1947); 2: Your Local (1947); 3: Inn-Signia (1948); 4: The Brewer's Art (1948); 5: Whitbread Craftsmen (1948); 6: Inns of Kent (1948); 7: Inns of Sport; (1949) 8: Receipts and Relishes (1950); 9: Your Club (1950); 10: Inn Crafts and Furnishings (1950); 11: Word for Word (1953). Produced to promote the famous brewery, its products and its houses, the Whitbread Library is a tribute to a passed age of ale, 'the local' and the English countryside which must have seemed idyllic in the aftermath of WWII. Covering all aspects of the art and craft of brewing and related activities, the series was produced partly in-house and partly using well-known authors and illustrators including John Moore, John Wentworth-Day, Bernard Darwin, John Leigh-Pemberton, Ivor Brown and Derrick Harris. The texts are deceptively detailed and all volumes are well-illustrated. Several volumes (especially 2, 3 and 8) are scarce; one (no. 11) is rare; most are now elusive in really good condition with dustwrappers. The series was clearly well-received: The Times termed it a 'novel enterprise in commercial publishing'; the Illustrated London News called it ' a valuable addition to the literature of the trade and our social life'. With the present popularity of real ale and the resurgence of craft brewing, the series deserves the appreciation of another generation. COMPLETE SETS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPERS ARE PARTICULARLY SCARCE. …