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1807 "Sporting Anecdotes" by Pierce Egan

Item Details

Title and Author/Editor Sporting Anecdotes; Original and Select; Including Characteristic Sketches of Eminent Persons Who Have Appeared on the Turf: with an Interesting Selection of the Most Extraordinary Events Which Have Transpired in the Sporting World; a Correct Description of the Animals of Chase; and of Every Other Subject Connected with the Various Diversions of the Field (An Amateur Sportsman, pseudonym for Pierce Egan)
Genre Anthologies, Sports, Biography, Autobiography and Memoirs, Hunting and Fishing
Binding Three quarter leather with cloth covered boards
Dust Jacket No
Publisher or Printer Printed by Albion Press for J. Cundee and J. Harris
Publication Year 1807
Place of Publication London
Edition Statement Second Edition
Number of Books 1
Additional Information This volume features five raised spine bands, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, top text edges in gilt and untrimmed fore and bottom edges.

Condition

wear to the cover with rubbed edges, bumped corners and soiling; writing/bookplate to endpapers; foxing; fading; tanning to text edges.

Dimensions

1.5" W x 7.5" H x 4.75" D

Item #

ITMG271183

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