24th May, 2023 11:00

Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 223
 

A Pugilist [Swift (Owen)]

A Pugilist [Swift (Owen)]

The modern English boxer, or, Scientific art and practice of attack and self defence…, [Hartley 1815], lithographic titlepage and folding frontispiece depicting eight boxing poses, rubbed at folds, 20pp., spotting, later quarter morocco, worn, lacking original wrappers, 12mo, [H. Hewitt], c.1848;

The Hand-Book to Boxing.. . With a Complete Chronology of the Ring, First Edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, lacking tissue guard?, staining, contemporary signature to title, errata slip at rear, bookplates of Harry Arthur James and Sir Robert Jones, without the original pink wrappers, three-quarter morocco by Speakman of Liverpool, worn, Nicholson, 1840;

Mingaud (Edward) The Life and Adventures of James Ward…, lacking half-title, with the same bookplates as the second item, contemporary half morocco, worn, W. S. Johnson, 1853;

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