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Early British swimming, 55 BC-AD 1719 : with the first swimming treatise in English, 1595

Title
Early British swimming, 55 BC-AD 1719 : with the first swimming treatise in English, 1595 / by Nicholas Orme.
Author
Orme, Nicholas.
Publication
Exeter, Devon : University of Exeter, 1983.

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Additional Authors
  • Middleton, Christopher, 1560?-1628.
  • Digby, Everard, approximately 1551-1605.
Description
xi, 215 p. ; ill.; 21 cm.
Subject
  • Middleton, Christopher, 1560?-1628
  • Swimming > Great Britain > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 209) and index.
Contents
Includes: A short introduction for to learne to swimme / Christopher Middleton. Originally published: London : James Roberts for Edward White, 1595. An abridged translation of: De arte natandi / Everard Digby. Originally published: in 2 vols. London : Thomas Dawson, 1587.
ISBN
0859891348
OCLC
  • ocm10593229
  • SCSB-82343
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library