The Young Gymnast. Illustrated. A perfect instructor for the amateur or professional gymnasium, and of incalculable value to any one who wished to become a gymnast by Champion Handbooks

New York: Champion Publishing Co., 1882. 18mo (16 cm), pictorial color wrappers. 60 pp., 4 publisher ads, numerous b&w illus. A popular publication offering training advice to young men on gymnastic techniques and exercises for the trapeze, dumbbells, suspended ropes, Indian clubs and more, including suggestions for the following healthy schedule for the "reading man": "Breakfast at 8; reading, 8:30 to 12:30; light lunch, on biscuit or sandwich, and glass of bitter beer or sherry and water; exercise from 12:30 - 4:30; dinner at 4:30; relaxation of body and mind till 6:30, when take a cup or two of coffee or black tea; then read for two, three or four hours, according to circumstances." With an appealing hand-colored illustration on the front wrapper. CONDITION: Good, wear at extremities, bumped and folded corners with 3 cm x 1 cm loss on bottom right corner of front wrapper, .5 cm x 2 cm loss on upper left corner of back wrapper, light foxing, 1 uncut p., spine intact.