The History of the Rugby Football Union

368pp plus two sections of monochrome plate photographic illustrations. Cloth-covered boards. Slightly soft and a little dust marked on text block edges, minor corner rounding. In its original dust jacket (a little chipped and chapped at edges, short tear with no loss on verso, protected in an old mylar wrapper. The history of the Rugby Football Union is to a great extent a history of the sport itself, starting from its origins in antiquity and carrying the story through the times of Tom Brown's Schooldays and Twenty-a-side through to the modern game as it was in the mid-20th century.