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Transcription: Sporting anecdotes, original and selected, including numerous characteristic portraits of persons in every walk of life, who have achieved notoriety from their achievements on the turf, at the table, and in the diversions of the field, with sketches of various animals of the chase: to which is added, an account of noted pedestrians, trotting-matches, cricketers, &c. The whole forming a complete delineation of the sporting world. By Peirce Egan. A new edition, considerable enlarged and improved. London: Printed for Sherwoord, Jones, and Co. Paternoster-Row. 1825.
"Monday after the 'Great St. Leger,' or Heros of the Turf paying & recieving at Tattersalls." Hand-colored aquatint by Robert Cruikshank.
Men gathered in the courtyard of a building.
"A visit to the Fives Court." Hand-colored aquatint by Robert Cruikshank.
A boxing match with men watching from the ground and from windows above.