How to Be Healthy - A Complete Course of Physical Exercises with Instructions for Dumb Bells, Club Swinging and Ju - Jitsu

An uncommon fitness manual: a first edition in good condition. Red cloth boards boldly titled in black lettering; a little age toned. Contemporary advertisements to front and rear. Previous owner’s details elaborately penned to title page. A little age spotted to preliminaries; text block sound and unmarked. Illustrated with 77 diagrams.

Published just before WW1 this manual captures the late Victorian and Edwardian era’s physical culture movement including instructions for Indian club swinging, ju-jitsu and dumb bells.

OCLC finds only 2 recorded copies at the British Library and University of Cambridge.