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(Sporting) 1 Vol. Egan, Pierce. 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 Various Animals of the Chase: To Which is added, an Account of Noted Pedestrians, Trotting Matches, Cricketers, &c. The Whole Forming a Complete Delineation of the Sporting World. By Pierce Egan. A New Edition, Considerably Enlarged and Improved. London: Printed for Sherwood, Jones, and Co. Paternoster-Row, 1825. First published in 1820. 8vo. 592 pages. Illustrated by J.R. Cruikshank and others with six plates, as called for: frontispiece, two plates (not colored) plus three hand-colored plates including one folding; numerous black and white in-text illustrations. Three-quarter green calf over marbled paper-covered boards with maroon morocco spine label; matching marbled endpapers; matching marbled edges; previous owner's armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Light scattered foxing to plates and some text. A very good copy.