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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Newton Abbot,
David and Charles,
1971.
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