Tom Moore’s Boxing Poem
Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress. With a Preface, Notes, and Appendix. By One of the Fancy.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme…, 1819.
Price: $300.00
About the item
Third edition. xxxii, 87pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tom Moore’s Boxing Poem. Original boards, uncut. Spine almost perished, else fine copy. Magriel 25; Hartley 1398.
Item #12510
Three editions appeared in the first year of publication. Hartley claims there are two issues of the third edition, one with 4pp. of ads in front, the other with 12 pp. of ads in the rear. This copy, in boards, has no ads.
Moore was a boxing fan, and his poem “abounds with the slang of pugilism”.
