Prizefighting: the age of Regency boximania.

Prizefighting in Regency England was a cult. The sport was patronised by princes and dukes, even thought it was at times illegal; it excited the imagination of writers such as Dr Johnson and Hazlitt; it was the subject of prints by Rowlandson and the Cruikshanks; Lord Byron and George Morland revell...

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Main Author: Ford, John, 1936-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1971.
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Cushing: Sports/Mitchell Boxing (Does not check out)

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Call Number: GV1123 F67 1971
Notes: The Sports/Boxing copy is a donation from J. Lawrence Mitchell.
 
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