The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time
Joseph Strutt's antiquarian survey of English games, May customs, processions and public spectacles, first issued in the 1800s and reprinted in London in 1830 with William Hone's additions for general readers. Line-engraved copies of medieval manuscript figures show players mid-action against blank ground: ball games, cudgels, hand-slapping, blindfold sports, useful as cut-out silhouettes and simple hatched figure studies.
