Pugilistica, Vol. 2: The History of British Boxing Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles From Contemporary ... Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Pr - Hardcover

Miles, Henry Downes

9780332781280: Pugilistica, Vol. 2: The History of British Boxing Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles From Contemporary ... Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Pr

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ISBN 10: 0332781283 ISBN 13: 9780332781280

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Pugilistica, Vol. 2: The History of British Boxing Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles From Contemporary Newspapers, With Authentic Portraits, Personal Anecdotes, and Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Prize Ring

The favour with which the first volume of pugilistica has been received gives the author encouraging hope that the present instal ment of his history will prove yet more interesting and acceptable.

The two periods comprised in these pages embrace the lives of several of the most skilful and courageous boxers who have illustrated the art of attack and defence. In the first, we have the battles of Spring (thos. Winter), John Langan, Ned Painter, Oliver, Neat of Bristol, Thomas Hickman, Dan Donnelly, and Carter, with minor stars in an Appendix. In the second, J em Ward, Peter Crawley, Tom Cannon, Josh. Hudson, Ned Neale, Ned Baldwin, Young Dutch Sam, Alec Reid, Tom Gaynor, Bishop Sharpe, Brown of Bridgnorth, and Sampson of Birmingham. Dick Curtis, Barney Aaron, Harry Jones, and light-weights forming the Appendix.

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