Swimming & Watermanship. With Sixty-Six Illustrations by Ernest Aris. London: Hutchinson, 1933. First Edition. Pp,291. A very good copy in illustrated dust jacket.

Profusely illustrated showing various swimming techniques by the renowned illustrator of children’s and natural history books, Ernest Aris.   

Described as ‘the most famous writer on swimming in the world’ Sidney George Hedges (1897-1974) was a prolific British author who wrote about a diverse range of topics, and whose work included: children’s fiction, swimming and diving manuals, adult mystery novels.