Harry Furniss The By Ways and Queer Ways of Boxing
Harry Furniss The By Ways and Queer Ways of Boxing
The By Ways and Queer Ways of Boxing by Harry Furniss, 1919 first edition. Green buckram binding with printed title and portrait of gloved boxer in boxing stance. Good solid binding. No tearing, foxing, or staining, and in good condition throughout with numerous text illustrations.4to, viii (including frontis.), 227, numerous text illustrations.
Bookplate of Henry Courtney Brocklehurst. Lt Col Henry Courtney Brocklehurst. 10th royal hussars, and pilot in the royal flying corps 1916 – 1918 (1914 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal ). Killed on active service in Burma as part of SSD2 commando June 1942
The author was an artist and illustrator, and states in a preliminary note that he has engaged more than one model to sit for him who has been a boxer in his day, and from these old boxers he heard much of the By Ways and Queer Ways of the "Great Game". The illustrations include: Jackson/Slavin contest, James Figg, Pugilists in Portraiture, Jack Broughton, Tom Cribb, Bombardier Wells, Jack Johnson 'how he WOULD have appeared in portraiture had he lived in the time of Molineaux' and Bill Richmond, Robert Fitzsimmons, John L. Sullivan.
It includes a discussion of the history of the various forms of boxing and its changes coming into the 20th century. As well as profiles of famous fighters and descriptions of the greatest and most disgraceful fights of our time, according to the author
Harry Furniss The By Ways and Queer Ways of Boxing
The By Ways and Queer Ways of Boxing by Harry Furniss, 1919 first edition. Green buckram binding with printed title and portrait of gloved boxer in boxing stance. Good solid binding. No tearing, foxing, or staining, and in good condition throughout with numerous text illustrations.4to, viii (including frontis.), 227, numerous text illustrations.
Bookplate of Henry Courtney Brocklehurst. Lt Col Henry Courtney Brocklehurst. 10th royal hussars, and pilot in the royal flying corps 1916 – 1918 (1914 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal ). Killed on active service in Burma as part of SSD2 commando June 1942
The author was an artist and illustrator, and states in a preliminary note that he has engaged more than one model to sit for him who has been a boxer in his day, and from these old boxers he heard much of the By Ways and Queer Ways of the "Great Game". The illustrations include: Jackson/Slavin contest, James Figg, Pugilists in Portraiture, Jack Broughton, Tom Cribb, Bombardier Wells, Jack Johnson 'how he WOULD have appeared in portraiture had he lived in the time of Molineaux' and Bill Richmond, Robert Fitzsimmons, John L. Sullivan.
It includes a discussion of the history of the various forms of boxing and its changes coming into the 20th century. As well as profiles of famous fighters and descriptions of the greatest and most disgraceful fights of our time, according to the author
Harry Furniss The By Ways and Queer Ways of Boxing
The By Ways and Queer Ways of Boxing by Harry Furniss, 1919 first edition. Green buckram binding with printed title and portrait of gloved boxer in boxing stance. Good solid binding. No tearing, foxing, or staining, and in good condition throughout with numerous text illustrations.4to, viii (including frontis.), 227, numerous text illustrations.
Bookplate of Henry Courtney Brocklehurst. Lt Col Henry Courtney Brocklehurst. 10th royal hussars, and pilot in the royal flying corps 1916 – 1918 (1914 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal ). Killed on active service in Burma as part of SSD2 commando June 1942
The author was an artist and illustrator, and states in a preliminary note that he has engaged more than one model to sit for him who has been a boxer in his day, and from these old boxers he heard much of the By Ways and Queer Ways of the "Great Game". The illustrations include: Jackson/Slavin contest, James Figg, Pugilists in Portraiture, Jack Broughton, Tom Cribb, Bombardier Wells, Jack Johnson 'how he WOULD have appeared in portraiture had he lived in the time of Molineaux' and Bill Richmond, Robert Fitzsimmons, John L. Sullivan.
It includes a discussion of the history of the various forms of boxing and its changes coming into the 20th century. As well as profiles of famous fighters and descriptions of the greatest and most disgraceful fights of our time, according to the author