Modern English Sports: Their Use and Their Abuse; dedicated by special permission to Professor Ruskin
Modern English Sports, Their Use and Their Abuse is an 1885 London treatise on sport by Frederick Gale, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington and dedicated to Professor Ruskin. The only picture is a sepia studio portrait of Gale himself, a grey-haired man in a dark coat and waistcoat, captioned with his name beneath, offering a designer a dignified Victorian photographic portrait format with a warm tone and cream mount border.
