Boxing broadsidesA Great Fight, which took place this day, between Spring and Langan for the Championship, & 500l. aside, near Chichester, woodcut at head, printed in two columns, 252 x 190mm (10 x 7½ inches), ‘Pitts, Printer, 6 Great St., Andrew street 7 dial’, [1824]; [with] Corinthian’s Diary, single sheet, describes the week of a Corinthian which includes a visit to the Fives Court to see Randall and Neate and Cribb sparring, ‘J. Pitts, Printer Wholesaler Toy & Marble Warehouse, 6, Great St Andrew-street, 7 dials’, 237 x 91mm (9¼ x 3½ inches), [1840s]; [and] Think of your head in the morning, ballad with boxing woodcut at head, ‘Tom Jennings, who never could drinking avoid, Tho’ vows he was always making…’, 230 x 81mm (9 x 3¼ inches), [1840s] (3)***First item: in this print the woodblock used in error is the standard view of the stance of Humphreys versus Mendoza. It is feasible that, in order to meet anticipated demand for the broadside, two ‘blocks’ were set up, one having the correct Spring Langan woodcut head piece, the other using the older Humphries v Mendoza version.Provenance:From the Boxing Collection of Pierre and Anna Spake.