Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing.

£750 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Second edition; 3 vols, thick 8vo (230 x 170 mm); vol. I: xvi, 507pp, frontis. 29 full-page illustrations, with many illustrations in the text; vol. II: 544pp, frontis. 17 full-page illustrations, with many in the text; vol. III: 534pp, frontis. 12 full-page illustrations, with many text illustrations, fore-edge to two leaves in Preface of vol. I roughly cut but not affecting text, contents in each very clean save for some light foxing in each volume( as usual), particularly to preliminary and terminal pages and page edges but relatively minor; publisher's brown cloth decorated in black and gilt with gilt vignettes of pugilists in action to upper boards, bumping to spine extremities and corners, minor rubbing, otherwise very good-plus, an attractive set.

• Binding: Hardcover

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