SKETCHLEY, W.

The cocker; containing every information to the breeders and amateurs of that noble bird, the game cock: to which is added, a variety of other useful information for the instruction of those who are attendants on the cock pit.

Burton-on-Trent: printed and published by J. Croft, High Street; and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1814. 22cm. 88pp, frontis laid down to front paste-down. Original cloth backed paper boards, imperfect printed spine label. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled; text age browning throughout. Concludes at page 88 - original goes on the page 154. This certainly does not have the 'feel' of an 1814 publication, We can find no late 19th century reprint recorded - the date we would think it was published.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 45287

Catalogue: Cockfighting

Keywords: cockfighting