Sporting anecdotes:. original and selected, including numerous characteristic portraits of persons in every walk of life who have acquired notoriety from their achievements on the turf, at the table, and in the diversions of the field with sketches of thevarious animals of the chase, to which is added an account of noted pedestrians, trotting matches, cricketers &c ... /. ny Pierce Egan.
Pierce Egan (1772 - 1849)
Category
Books
Date
1820
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 3218175
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, [2], 497, [1]p.:. ill.;. 8vo. With an incomplete cutting from a newspaper, dating from around the period of the Boer War, laid in at p. 217. Provenance: inscribed W[illiam] G[ore] Lambarde. Binding: full calf, double gold fillets, sewn onto recessed bands, gold-tooled on spine, spine title: Sporting anecdote.
Makers and roles
Pierce Egan (1772 - 1849)