Sporting anecdotes; original and select: including characteristic sketches of Eminent Persons who have appeared on the turf.

AN AMATEUR SPORTSMAN [i.e. EGAN, Pierce]

Verlag: Albion Press: printed by James Cundee, [London], 1804

Beschreibung

vi, [10], 542pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further 15 engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed. Scattered spotting, terminal leaf of text, terminal plate, and rear endpapers damp-stained at head. The first edition of sporting journalist Pierce Egan's (1772-1849) sketches of notable incidents in the pastimes of hunting, fishing, racing, and field sports. Baldwin's London Magazine (August and September 1820), in reviewing the a later edition, remarked, rather verbosely: 'The author her has contrived to mass together all the particulars of Horse, Dog, and Man, worth of being known. It is a happy composition; full of whim and particular phrases, with a slip of morality in it, like a bit of lemon-peel in one's punch, and delightfully flavoured with the choicest lime juice of slang. Every leaf of the book glitters like a river in the sun'. Size: 8vo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ29873

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Sporting anecdotes; original and select: ...

Verlag: Albion Press: printed by James Cundee, [London]

Erscheinungsdatum: 1804

Einband: Softcover

Auflage: First edition.