STATISTICAL HISTORY OF SPRINGBOK RUGBY & SPRINGBOK SAGA [2 volumes]

Shnaps, Teddy A. STATISTICAL HISTORY OF SPRINGBOK RUGBY: players, tours and matches. 382 pages: illustrations, portraits. Quarto. Full leather with gilding. Contained in a slipcase together with:

Greyvenstein, Chris. SPRINGBOK SAGA: 100 years of Springbok rugby. 334 pages: illustrations, portraits (some colour). Quarto. Full leather with gilding. 

Both volumes are numbered 88 of a de luxe edition.

Both volumes signed by the authors and Dr Danie Craven (President of the SARB) on a preliminary page. Unread set.

This set brings together two important works on early SA rugby. Shnaps produced a very detailed statistical record which also included the records of every match played between visiting and local teams and complete records relating to South African teams playing abroad. Shnaps was the official statistician of the South African Rugby Board.

Greyvenstein, a Cape Town newspaper journalist  authored a number of books on aspects of South African sport, particularly on historical accounts of the growth of rugby in southern Africa. Greyvenstein's first edition of this work was produced in 1977 and became a bestseller. He revised and updated the work for this edition.