Routledge's Handbook of Football,from the Routledge's sixpenny handbooks series "in fancy boards" featuring sport, games & recreation, pictorial papered boards, 60 pages plus advertisements, published by George Routledge & Sons, Ludgate Hill, London,1867. Condition is fragile with wear and paper loss to spine, creases and paper loss to cover, internal pages loose from spine stitching.Peter Seddon in his exhaustive Football Compendium has this book listed as A2, a strong indication of its earliness as a football work and published just four years after the formation of The Football Association.