Wimbledon has recently finished, and watching it reminded me of this little gem I discovered on a tatty little book stall in Manchester. I fell in love with this collector's book, "Tennis: An Album of Famous Players in Action", produced by Player's cigarettes in the mid-1920s. Inside, it holds a complete set of cigarette cards, which I assume had been carefully collected and inserted by "John T. Forage" - the name scribed haphazardly in pencil on the cover.
I love things like this. My Dad has a complete set of Football cigarette cards he collected as a child which has always fascinated me. The illustrations are beautiful, as well as the type layout and I love how the album cost one whole penny when it was in production.
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