Healthful Exercises for Girls
London: George Philip & Sons, [1886]. 8vo, green cloth with gilt titles, [2], iv, [5], 6-92, [4] pp. Uncommon exercise manual for girls, by Alexander Alexander, the director of the Liverpool Gymnasium. The introduction begins: "it will perhaps be allowed that girls have very little opportunities for physical recreation, although they require it quite as much", and advocates for prevention of a physical condition through exercise rather than waiting for a condition to develop, as most of the girls at the gymnasium were there for an ailment that could have been prevented. The rest of the text consists of instructions for a wide variety of exercises, from calisthenics to swimming to parallel bars; each set of instructions is illustrated with sketches of girls performing the exercise. Bowing to covers, wear/discoloration to covers, toning and mild foxing to pages. Item #7716
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