Boxing loreA collection of 40 volumes, including:‘Thormanby’ [W. Wilmot Dixon], Boxers and their Battles, 8 portrait plates including frontispiece, frontispiece loose, text browned, publisher’s catalogue at rear, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, publisher’s pictorial cloth, R. A. Everett, 1900; The Champions of the American Prize Ring, large 8vo., 54pp., 1881 copyright date, but 6th edition on the wrapper, although only runs to the Joe Goss Paddy Ryan fight 1880, so is presumably ‘first thus’, ‘C. W. Ryder, Sporting Ed.’ in ink at head of intro., lacking rear wrapper panel (and adverts?), browned and chipped, [cf. Hartley 893], New York, Richard K. Fox, 1881 [but later]; Andrews (Tom) Ring Battles of the Centuries, revised edition, original pictorial wrappers, some staining, creasing, splitting, Tom Andrews Record Book Co., 1924; v.s., with others similar including a number of instructional books (40)Provenance:From the Boxing Collection of Pierre and Anna Spake.