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Subject Terms Boxing -- Great Britain.

1. Going to a fight : the sporting world in all its variety of style and costume along the road from Hyde Park Corner to Moulsey Hurst.

Going to a fight : the sporting world in all its variety of style and costume along the road from Hyde Park Corner to Moulsey Hurst.

Creator:: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789–1856
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: 42 pictures on 8 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatints ; sheets end-to-end 6 x 360 cm, rolled (in wooden case) to 10 x 5 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The fatal effects of gambling exemplified in the murder of Wm. Weare, and the trial and fate of John Thurtell, the murderer, and his accomplices : with biographical sketches of the parties concerned and a comment on the extraordinary circumstances developed in the narrative in which gambling is proved to be the source of forgery, snobbery, murder, and general demoralization : To which is added, the Gambler's scourge; a complete exposé of the whole system of gambling in the metropolis / with memoirs and anecdotes of notorious blacklegs ; illustrated by portraits drawn from life and other copper-plate engravings of peculiar interest.

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Creator:: Thurtell, John, 1794–1824
Date:: MDCCCXXIV [1824]
Physical Description:: xxii, 512 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts