The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland

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VG, 1st ed, 2 vols complete, numerous illustrations within text. In uniform burgundy cloth, corners brushed. S[pines, gilt tooling & titles, edges rubbed. lib nos at bases. Internally, vol 1, 1894, half title, [7], (viii-xix), [1] errata, [1], 2-4233. Vol 2, 1898, half title, [5], (vi-xv), [1], [1], 2-531 pp. Numerous illustrations within text, faint evidence of bookplate removal to fpds, small withdrawn stamp to both tps, small oval stamp to margin last leaf to both, some lib nos to verso of tp. But a very good set. (8vo, 147*220 & 143*223 mm). Title continues: with tunes, singing-rhymes, and methods of playing according to the variants extant and recorded in different parts of the kingdom. V1: Acchosray - nuts in May. V2: Oats and beans - would you know - Together with a memoir on the study of children's games. Gomme, whose interest in folk cookery and in children's games came together at the conversazione, held in October 1891, which was intended as a diversion from the serious business of the first International Folklore Congress then taking place in London. She was also an active suffragist. See ODNB.