[Rarebooks] fa: SPORTSMAN'S MAGAZINE 1823-25 - Rare run of all 3 vols. - Boxing, Angling, Cricket, Golf, Shooting, &c.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Thanks,
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, 12mo (15.5 cm; 6 1/8 in), in early/period marbled boards, cloth spines and vellum corners, modern letaher spine labels lettered in gilt; 346, 322, 272 pp.; with in-text woodcut illustrations and twenty engraved plates (complete). 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.

Complete with all 20 engraved plates (one folding, one hand-colored), engraved title-pages and supplements for vols. I & II, as called for. Bindings rubbed and darkened, bumped at the corners; dust-soiling to the edges of the text block, some offsetting from the plates, leaves lightly toned with a few occasional small spots and stains; otherwise clean and sound. Bound without the separate title for August 1823 and the supplementary "Barker's Delight" and "Complete Angler" reprints, as usual.

PLATES include portraits of pugilists Tom Cribb, John Jackson, Josh. Hudson, Dick Curtis ("the Pet of the Fancy"), etc.; the celebrated Female Pedestrian, Emma Freeman; Isaak Walton, Charles Cotton; A View of the Dog Billy "winning the Match of Killing One Hundred Rats in Six Minutes" (colored); 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 (folding); 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. II contains an unusual early description of "The Golf" ("an amusement said to be peculiar to Scotland...").