Title: Sporting Anecdotes, Original and Selected; Including Numerous Characteristic Portraits of Persons in Every Walk of Life Who Have Acquired Notoriety from Their Achievements on the Turf, at the Table, and in the Diversons of the Field, with Sketches of the Various Animals of the Chase: To Which is Added, an Account of Noted Pedestrians, Trotting Matches, Cricketers, &c. the whole forming a complete Delineation of the Sporting World Author: Egan, Pierce Place: London Publisher: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones Date: 1820 Description: viii, 497 + 3 ad pp. Engraved frontispiece showing 8 different sporting scenes. 6¾x4, period quarter calf and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Mentions golf related information starting on page 131. Schwerdt I, 159. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers nearly detached, light rubbing and edge wear, small chips to leather; occasional darkening and foxing to contents, early owner's signature on the title page; good or better. Item number: 171639
Title: Sporting Anecdotes, Original and Selected; Including Numerous Characteristic Portraits of Persons in Every Walk of Life Who Have Acquired Notoriety from Their Achievements on the Turf, at the Table, and in the Diversons of the Field, with Sketches of the Various Animals of the Chase: To Which is Added, an Account of Noted Pedestrians, Trotting Matches, Cricketers, &c. the whole forming a complete Delineation of the Sporting World Author: Egan, Pierce Place: London Publisher: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones Date: 1820 Description: viii, 497 + 3 ad pp. Engraved frontispiece showing 8 different sporting scenes. 6¾x4, period quarter calf and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Mentions golf related information starting on page 131. Schwerdt I, 159. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers nearly detached, light rubbing and edge wear, small chips to leather; occasional darkening and foxing to contents, early owner's signature on the title page; good or better. Item number: 171639
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