Sammelband.- ‘A Pupil of the Late Tom Cribb’, The British Boxer

Sammelband.-

‘A Pupil of the Late Tom Cribb’,

The British Boxer, or Guide to Self Defence, title vignette, 16pp., [Hartley 1577], variation published by W. Winn, [1848] § Dipple (E., pub.) Dipple’s Handbooks, No. 5. Boxiana…, title vignette and 2 engraved portraits, probably complete in 16pp., c.1850 § Swift (Owen) The Hand-Book to Boxing... With a Complete Chronology of the Ring, First Edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, some offsetting, errata slip at rear, Nicholson, 1840; some spotting and browning throughout, bound in modern paper-covered boards, spine lacking.

***There are no auction records for the first title. It was advertised in The London Journal of 1848: “In these turbulent times, it is indispensably requisite that everybody should be prepared to use effectively those weapons which Nature has furnished us with, therefore instantaneously purchase The British Boxer…”