Self-Defence or The Art of Boxing...edited by the late Corporal-Major Waite

[Presentation inscription from the author, rare full leather binding

London, Wyman & Sons, Ltd, Carter Lane EC 1895, new and revised edition.

8vo, xii, 13-146, 49 illustrations and a further ‘plate’ 1 showing ‘hand position when hitting’, full dark green/black morocco, with gilt illustration of Donnelly in Boxing stance, with gilt lettering

The last four pages report on the fights in the 1884 Queensbury Championship

Bibliography: Hartley 527 [first edition]. Ex McInnes collection, with their bookplate

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