[Rarebooks] fa: SPORTSMAN'S MAGAZINE 1823-25 - Run of All Three Vols. - UNTRIMMED in ORIGINAL

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, January 29. 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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Ardwight Chamberlain
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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 (15.5 cm), in early/original publisher's boards, rebacked to style with original printed spine labels laid down; 346, 322, 272 pp.; engraved plates, woodcuts. SCHWERDT Hunting, Hawking, Shooting Illustrated) II, p. 221; PADWICK Bibliography 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.

Collated and complete, with all 20 engraved plates (one folding, one colored), engraved title-pages and supplements for vols. I & II, as called for. Light wear and staining to the original boards; light dust-soiling to the untrimmed edges of the text block; occasional minor browning, soiling and stains to the leaves, but generally quite clean and fresh, firmly bound. Lacking the supplementary "Barker's Delight" and "Complete Angler" reprints, as usual. Two of the volumes bear the engraved armorial bookplate of Walter Powell Jeffreys (with the Welsh motto "Gwell angau na cywilydd").

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. Vol. I with a 5-page "Table of the Fish Usually Angled for in the Waters of Great Britain; With the Places, Seasons, Time of Day, Depth from the Ground, and Baits suited to their Habits"; vol. II with an unusual early description of "The Golf" ("an amusement said to be peculiar to Scotland...").