Sporting Anecdotes; original and sleect; including Characteristic Sketches of Eminent Persons who have Appeared on the Turf: with an interesting Selection of the most extraordinary events which have transpired in the Sporting World; A correct Description of the Animals of the Chase; and of every other subject connected with the various Diversions of the Field

Egan, Pierce (Amateur Sportsman)

Published by Albion Press, London, 1807

About this Item

4½ x 7½" pp. xvi +579 + [5] publisher's advertisements. Engraved frontispiece and vignette of dogs on the title page, but unlike the first edition of 1804 the second edition of 1807 has no other engravings. In original boards with engraving of a hound on the front board and advertisement on the rear board. No back board. Boards are heavily rubbed. Binding firm with no loose pages. Contents clean with hardly any marks or stains. All edges uncut. Could be rebound or kept in its (rare) original state.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sporting Anecdotes; original and sleect; including Characteristic Sketches of Eminent Persons who have Appeared on the Turf: with an interesting Selection of the most extraordinary events which have transpired in the Sporting World; A correct Description of the Animals of the Chase; and of every other subject connected with the various Diversions of the Field
• Publisher: Albion Press, London
• Publication Date: 1807
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Equestrian
  • Nineteenth Century Books