SPORT AND PLAY Jahn, Friedrich Ludwig and Ernst Eiselen. The German gymnastics to set up the gymnasiums. LXIV, 288 S. With 2 multifolded copper panels. 20 x 12 cm. Semi-leather d. C. (outer joints burst, more rubbed and bumped) with gold-embossed RSchild (this with edge damage). Berlin, Selbstverlag, 1816. Goedeke XIV, 635, 1038. – First edition of the most basic and well-known work of the "father of the tower", who fought with fatherland zeal the sluggishness of movement. "A non-swimmer always has the shyness of water, and goes for fear with the dirt of the skin, which he collects in life, miserable to grave." (Preface). Also contains probably the earliest German sport bibliography (Zur Bücherkunde der Turnkunst, p. 245 ff.). The coppers show sports equipment and a sports field. – Aims leimspurig. ==References== Copper panel with larger crack. Hardly sticky and paper-related tanned. Inside otherwise of very good preservation.