Sporting Anecdotes: being Anecdotal Annals, Descriptions, Tales and Incidents of Horse-Racing, Betting, Card-Playing, Pugilism, Gambling, Cock-Fighting, Pedestrianism, Fox-Hunting, Angling, Shooting, and Other Sports

"Ellangowan" [James Glass Bertram]

Published by Hamilton, Adams, and Co., London, 1889

About this Item

A very scarce copy of this collection of sporting anecdotes by Scottish author James Glass Bertram, the first edition. The first edition of this work, a very scarce copy found in only two institutional libraries. A collection of sporting anecdotes collected and edited by 'Ellangowan', pseudonym of James Glass Bertram, concerning a great variety of sports.James Glass Bertram was a Scottish author, known as apprentice to Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with some shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, the boards soiled and marked, damp staining to the front board. Minor chipping to the head and tail of the spine, which is lightly darkened. Alan Thornton's bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are generally very clean throughout, only odd marking to the occasional leaf. Good. Seller Inventory # 811A28

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sporting Anecdotes: being Anecdotal Annals, ...

Publisher: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., London

Publication Date: 1889

Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: None

Condition: Good

Edition: First edition.

Book Type: book