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Egan (Pierce) Anecdotes, (Original and Selected) of the Turf, the Chase, the Ring, and the Stage..., first edition, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 12 plates by Theodore Lane illustrations, plates all bound before text, frontispiece lightly offset on title, small contemporary ink annotation to foot of p.229, crease to last few leaves, 4pp. advertisements bound in at beginning, bookplate of Duncan Andrews, an excellent clean copy in the original pictorial boards with 3 sporting vignettes to each cover, uncut, a little rubbed and soiled, spine ends repaired, preserved in later red cloth folder and morocco-backed slip-case, spine faded, [Abbey, Life 283; Bobins 283; Schwerdt I p.158; Tooley 194], 8vo, 1827.