The British Lions Miscellany by Bath, Richard
The British Lions Miscellany
A Treasury of Astonishing Trivia, Historic Statistics, and Eccentric Lore from the World’s Greatest Touring Team
A Treasury of Astonishing Trivia, Historic Statistics, and Eccentric Lore from the World’s Greatest Touring Team
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: The British Lions Miscellany
- Author: Richard Bath
- Publisher: Vision Sports Publishing, London
- Publication Date: 2008
- ISBN-10: 190532634X
- ISBN-13: 9781905326341
- Edition Details: First Edition, First Printing. Standard Hardcover Release.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium cloth-bound hardcover casing with vibrant spine lettering.
- Physical Format: Small Octavo (8vo), 160 pages. Structured as a highly curated compendium featuring tabular historical records, archival quote frames, and distinct thematic trivia matrices.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Used - Very Good (VG)
- Exterior / Boards: The original hardcover casing presents beautifully, keeping crisp, square corners and uniform board structure. Shows only minimal, superficial signs of minor shelf friction along the bottom shelving margins. The spine remains perfectly unbroken, holding its shape without linear shelf-lean, vertical cracking, or crushing to the head and tail bands.
- Interior: The text block is robustly bound, tight, and highly crisp. The internal pages are remarkably clean, bright white, and completely intact. They are entirely free of user highlighting, underline annotations, owner name inscriptions, library stamps, or common dealer pencil markings.
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The Dust Jacket: Used - Very Good (VG)
- Condition Detail: The original illustrated dust jacket is present, whole, and completely intact. The jacket face panels display their original vibrant coloration and high contrast, showing only very limited, microscopic signs of edge wear from safe domestic shelf-sheltering. Completely free of sun-fading on the spine, heavy open tears, or chips.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 2008 ahead of the high-stakes 2009 tour of South Africa, The British Lions Miscellany is a brilliant, highly engaging compendium tracking the rich cultural lineage of the oldest and greatest touring team in the sporting world. Rather than offering a standard chronological narrative, this book is crammed with 120 years' worth of amazing facts, stats, stories, lists, and quotes that uncover the true, unfiltered soul of the British & Irish Lions.
Acclaimed rugby author Richard Bath curates an essential archive for sports trivia purists, answering historical mysteries both profound and bizarre. The text answers fascinating questions: What colour jerseys did the Lions first play in? Which of the four home nations has been represented in every single Lions test team? And when did infamous Ugandan dictator Idi Amin line up against the Lions? Capturing everything from early amateur tours in the late 19th century to the modern professional era, this used collectible book is a vital, scarce collectible copy that offers immense bibliographic context and pure entertainment for sports history purists.
Author Profile: Richard Bath
Richard Bath is an exceptionally distinguished British journalist, author, and veteran sports writer. The former sports editor of Scotland on Sunday and a frequent contributor to major broadsheets like The Daily Telegraph, Bath is highly revered for his encyclopedic knowledge of international rugby union mechanics, sharp narrative pacing, and engaging prose style. Over his illustrious career, he has authored and edited numerous acclaimed rugby volumes, including The Scotland Rugby Miscellany.
Bath's deep understanding of rugby history and his access to early archival touring logs allow him to unearth eccentric characters, behind-the-scenes quotes, and statistical milestones that standard sports books overlook. His meticulous journalistic methodology ensures that this compilation serves as an authoritative, definitive primary historical record of the legendary British & Irish Lions subculture.
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