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INTRODUCTION
 
EARLIEST BOOK ABOUT TENNIS
 
TENNIS AS A ROYAL GAME
 
ART OF THE PAUMIER-RACQUETIER
 
ENLIGHTENMENT, REVOLUTION & TENNIS: DIDEROT & DAVID
 
COURT TENNIS IN THE 19TH CENTURY

BEGINNINGS OF LAWN TENNIS
 
FROM RECREATION TO COMPETITION

SOME 20TH CENTURY COURT TENNIS RARITIES
 
STARS & ICONS OF MODERN LAWN TENNIS

SURVIVAL OF COURT TENNIS AS AN INTERNATIONAL SPORT
 
BILLY HAGGARD: SPORTSMAN AND BOOKMAN

SELECTED REFERENCES
 
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References


Aberdare, Lord.  The Story of Tennis. London: Stanley Paul, 1959.

_____________.  The Willis Faber book of Tennis and Rackets. London : Stanley Paul, 1980. 

Best, David.  The Royal Tennis Court: A History of Tennis at Hampton Court Palace.  Foreword by H.R.H. the Earl of Wessex.  Oxford: Ironbark/Ronaldson Publications, 2002.
 

Brookner, Anita.  Jacques‑Louis David.  New York: Harper & Row, 1980. 

Butler, Lance St. J., and P. J. Wordie, eds.  The Royal Game. Foreword by H.R.H. Prince Edward.  Kippen, Stirlingshire: Falkland Palace Real Tennis Club, 1989.
 

"The Early History of Real Tennis." From Real Tennis, from Targair:
http://www.real-tennis.com/history/main.html"

 

Gillmeister, Heiner.  Tennis, A Cultural History.  London: Leicester University Press, 1997.
–The Haggard collection has the specially bound issue, Oxford: Ronaldson, n.d., no. 47 of 108 library copies.
 

Henderson, Robert W.  Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the origin of ball games.
            
New York: Rockport, 1947. 

"History of the Championships, Wimbledon".  From The Wimbledon Experience:
            http://www.wimbledon-experience.com/rotw/history.htm
 

"History of Lawn Tennis, 1873‑1928."  From Tennis at the Turn:
            http://www.driftwaycollection.com/history_intro.html

"History of Tennis."  From Britishtennis.com.
            http://www.britishtennis.com/newtotennis/history/
 

"History of Tennis: Origins, Early Tennis Inventions, Great Beginnings" [page of further links]. From Tennis.About.Com http://tennis.about.com/od/history/
 

Limb, George.  Melbourne to Myopia: Reflections on My Visits to the Real Tennis Courts of the 20th Century.  East Melbourne: George Limb, 2002.
 

Marshall, Julian.  The Annals of Tennis.  London: "The Field" Office, 1878.
 

Morgan, Roger. Tennis, the Development of the European Ball Game.  Oxford: Ironbark/Ronaldson Publications, 1995.
 

Mortimer, Roger.  Real Tennis or Le Jeu de Paume: a Loan Exhibit from the Collection of William D. Haggard III.  Columbia, SC: Department of Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, 1998.  
     

Noel, E. B. , and J. O. M. Clark.  A History of Tennis.  Orig. 1924.  Reprint, 1 vol. , London: Duckworth, 1991. 
 

Potter, Jeremy.  Tennis and Oxford.  Foreword by Lord Aberdare. Oxford: Oxford Unicorn Press, 1994.

Ronaldson, Chris.  Tennis: A Cut above the Rest.  Foreword by Lord Aberdare.  Oxford: Ironbark/Ronaldson Publications, 1985. 

Vamplew, Wray, "Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833‑1912), inventor of lawn tennis," in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [2004]:
            
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/50313

Whitman, Malcolm D.  Tennis Origins and Mysteries.  With an Historical Bibliography by Robert W. Henderson.  New York: Derrydale Press, 1932.
 
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