Books & Works on Paper, to include the Boxing Collection of Brian and Debbie Watkins, 24th Aug, 2023 10:00

253 A Celebrated Pugilist, A Treatise on the Art & Practice of SelfDefence A Celebrated Pugilist, A Treatise on the Art & Practice of Self-Defence; Or, Instructions How to Obtain a Scientific Mode of Boxing […] To Which is Added, an Account of the Best Method of Breeding & Training Game Cocks, ‘Hodgson’s Edition’, wood-engraved illustrations, no frontispiece, modern quarter calf, morocco title label to spine, 6to, Orlando Hodgson, c.1826.

***This edition not in Hartley and no copies listed on WorldCat.

Seemingly a new edition, with the addition of the section on Game Cocks, of the title printed ‘for the Booksellers’ in 1826 [Hartley 332] and also by B. Hodgson (undated).

£400-600

254 A Celebrated Pugilist, A Treatise on the Art & Practice of SelfDefence A Celebrated Pugilist, A Treatise on the Art & Practice of Self-Defence; Or, Instructions How to Obtain a Scientific Mode of Boxing…, first edition, hand-coloured folding frontispiece, contemporary calculations in ink verso, small burn hole at centre, 8 illustrations within text, title and wrapper inscribed by James Caley of Castletown, Isle of Man, 1836; some spotting in margins, text block trimmed in margins, original printed wrappers, with publisher’s advert to rear panel, within later quarter morocco gilt, worn, [Hartley 332], 6to, for the Booksellers, 1826.

£600-800