Transcriber's Notes
Sequences of plates are grouped together at the end of therelevant chapter or major section.
Detailed notes on the text (listing any changes made for correction oftypographical errors) are found at the end of the book.
Frontispiece
Title Page
CONTENTS.
LIST OF PLATES.
Publisher's catalogue (advertisements).
THE ISTHMIAN LIBRARY: A Series of Volumesdealing popularly with the whole range of Field Sportsand Athletics.
Edited by B. Fletcher Robinson, and Illustrated bynumerous Sketches and Instantaneous Photographs.Post 8vo, cloth, 5s. each.
Vol. I. Rugby Football. By B. FletcherRobinson, with chapters by Frank Mitchell,R. H. Cattell, C. J. N. Fleming, GregorMacGregor, and H. B. Tristram, and dedicatedby permission to Mr. Rowland Hill.
Vol. II. The Complete Cyclist. By A. C. Pemberton,Mrs. Harcourt Williamson, and C. J.Sisley.
Vol. IV. Rowing. By R. C. Lehmann, withchapters by Guy Nickalls and C. M. Pitman.
Vol. V. Boxing. By R. Allanson Winn.
Other volumes are in preparation, and will be duly announced.
ROWING
The Isthmian Library
Edited by B. Fletcher Robinson
No. 4
ROWING
BY
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1898
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