[Rarebooks] fa: THE SPORTSMAN'S MAGAZINE 1823 (BOXING - RACING - HUNTING - CRICKET - ROWING - SAILING - RATTING - PEDESTRIANISM &c)

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The Sportsman's Magazine; or, Chronicle of Games and Pastimes. London:  
Hodgson, 1824. FIRST EDITION. Vol. I [of 3 published]. Hardcover 12mo  
(147 mm; ca. 6 in.) in printed boards; 346 pp.; seven engraved plates  
(one folding, one hand-colored), engraved title-page, numerous in-text  
woodcuts. Schwerdt II, p. 221.

A rare and short-lived (1823-25) magazine dedicated to all things  
sporting, with an emphasis on pugilism, but also covering angling,  
horse racing, fox-hunting, shooting, cricket, rowing, sailing, and  
"the golf," as well as such unusual (and/or mercifully obsolete)  
pursuits as ratting, cockfighting, hawking, wrestling, archery,  
"pedestrianism", etc. The Sports Illustrated of its day. Six issues,  
or numbers, August 1823-January 1824, plus the Supplementary Number,  
bound together with an engraved general title-page for Vol. I, the  
whole in early/contemporary boards with the original printed wraps for  
one of the numbers (Sept. 1823) laid down onto the front and back  
covers...

With seven engraved plates, as called for: View of the Contest for  
Dogget's Coat and Badge, on the First of August, 1823 ( folding);  
Portrait of Mr. John Jackson, Professor of Pugilism; Portrait of Emma  
Freeman, the celebrated Female Pedestrian, as she performed Thirty  
Miles in Eight Hours, at the Wellington Cricket-ground, Monday, August  
11, 1823; Portrait of Josh. Hudson, the Pugilist; View of the Dog  
Billy, winning the Match of Killing One Hundred Rats in Six Minutes  
(colored);  Portrait of Thomas Winter Spring, Champion of England;  
View of the Otter Hunt at Ewton, in Devonshire.