18th Century Badminton

The First Worcester Edition of A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy, and Pretty Miss Polly includes this picture and description of eighteenth-century Shuttle-cock (more commonly known today as badminton).

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Credits

Published by Isaiah Thomas, Worcester Massachusetts, 1787.  Image, Library of Congress.