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BOXING

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Early boxing instructional in The "Oval" Series.

First Edition. Small 8vo. 128pp. Portrait frontis, three further plates, 15 illustrations in the text. Original pictorial boards showing a boxer in red outfit and red gloves holding the pose. Black titling to spine and front cover. Some light staining to back cover. Slight cracking to front gutter, otherwise contents very stable and clean. A very good copy of this scarce and early boxing title. [Hartley, 1866]

Date
1896
Publisher
George Routledge
Author
James Charles TROTTER

£150.00 (Code: 65643)

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