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.

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  • [London: ] Albion Press, ]
By [An Amateur Sportsman [pseud. of Pierce Egan].
[London:] Albion Press: Printed by James Cundee for Thomas Hurst…, 1804. First edition. Octavo, bound in early 20th century green morocco & marbled boards, marbled end papers, top edge gilt, uncut, [xvi], 542 pp. Frontispiece and 15 plates, along with a number of small vignettes. Very Good; light edgewear and rubbing along each joint, bearing the armorial bookplate of sporting-book collector, R. N. H. Moore Stevens, designed by “A.W.T.”

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