[Rarebooks] fa: SPORTSMAN'S MAGAZINE 1823-25 - COMPLETE RUN OF ALL THREE VOLS.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other 17th, 18th & 19th-Century English titles,  
auctions ending Monday, September 19. More details and images can be  
found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

The Sportsman's Magazine; or, Chronicle of Games and Pastimes. Vol. I,  
II & III [August 1823-January 1825]. London: Hodgson & Co., 1823-25.  
FIRST EDITION. Three volumes, 12mos (14.25 cm; 5 3/4") bound in recent  
half leather and marbled boards with gilt-stamped spine labels; 346,  
322, 272 pp.; engraved plates, woodcuts. SCHWERDT Hunting, Hawking,  
Shooting Illustrated) II, p. 221; PADWICK Bibliogaphy of Cricket 1211-3.

Scarce run of all three volumes (18 issues + 2 supplements) of this  
rare, short-lived magazine dedicated to all things sporting: pugilism,  
horse racing, fox-hunting, shooting, cricket, angling, "the golf,"  
rowing, sailing, ratting, cockfighting, hawking, wrestling, archery,  
"pedestrianism", etc.

Complete with all 20 engraved plates (one folding, one colored),  
engraved title-pages and supplements for vols. I & II, as called for,  
and the only example we've come across of the rare contents page for  
the first issue (August 1823). Some browning and spotting throughout,  
mild dust-soiling to the edges of the text block, lacking the first  
leaf of the index for vol. II, otherwise sound in a handsome set of  
modern bindings. Bound without the supplementary "Barker's Delight"  
and "Complete Angler" reprints, as usual.

PLATES include portraits of pugilists Tom Cribb, John Jackson, Josh.  
Hudson, Tom Spring, etc.; Emma Freeman, the celebrated Female  
Pedestrian; Isaak Walton, Charles Cotton; A View of the Dog Billy  
"winning the Match of Killing One Hundred Rats in Six Minutes"; View  
of the Otter Hunt at Ewton, in Devonshire; Lord Pelham's perilous  
Situation  while Coursing near Porto Bello Gap, Sussex; View of the  
Contest for Dogget's Coat and Badge, on the First of August, 1823;  
etc., etc.

CONTENTS include monthly or semi-monthly sections on pugilism ("the  
Slaughtering Fight between the Bath Tinman and Stevens," etc.),  
cricket matches, horse racing, coursing, cocking, angling, the turf,  
Aquatic Sports, Pedestrianism, Archery; The Cockney's Journal; The Art  
of Gymnastic Training; Ancient Sports in Greece, Africa, etc.;  
biographies; songs, anecdotes; and much more.