The dj is a bit soiled, especially down the spine, which is worn at either end. A copy of the cover is available via e-mail on request.The book has 7 colour plates and 38 b&w illustrations. Clubs have existed from very ancient times. The Greeks had them, the Romans had them. It may even be that other clubs besides those of wood and stone flourished in the Old Stone Age. But clubs as we know them today - your club and my club - are essentially English, Cockney institutions tracing their origins to the London of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher. For a time they were the exclusive preserves of the wise and witty, the rich and fashionable. Then ordinary plain men began to found clubs of their own, and evolved those clubs which now play so great a part in our national life - clubs of the people, run for the people and by the people.

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