Sporting Anecdotes: Original and Selected; Including Numerous Characteristic Portraits of Persons in Every Walk of Life, who Have Acquired Notoriety from Their Achievements on the Turf, at the Table, and in the Diversions of the Field, with Sketches of the 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 |
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