[OXBERRY, William (1784-1824).] Pancratia, or a History of Pugilism. Containing a Full Account of Every Battle of Note from the Time of Broughton and Slack, down to the Present Day. London: by W. Hildyard for W. Oxberry, 1812. 8° (215 x 130mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Tom Cribb by Warren after De Wild. (Offsetting, some spotting.) Later mottled green calf, flat spine tooled and lettered in gilt, edges red; solander case. Provenance: Cyril Flower, Baron Battersea (1843-1907; bookplate laid in, perhaps preserved from an earlier binding).

[OXBERRY, William (1784-1824).] Pancratia, or a History of Pugilism. Containing a Full Account of Every Battle of Note from the Time of Broughton and Slack, down to the Present Day. London: by W. Hildyard for W. Oxberry, 1812. 8° (215 x 130mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Tom Cribb by Warren after De Wild. (Offsetting, some spotting.) Later mottled green calf, flat spine tooled and lettered in gilt, edges red; solander case. Provenance: Cyril Flower, Baron Battersea (1843-1907; bookplate laid in, perhaps preserved from an earlier binding).

FIRST EDITION. After a brief survey of boxing in the Classical era, the work is wholly devoted to a history of boxing in Britain from the time of Figg and Broughton to Cribb's second fight with Molineux in 1811. ABPC records just one copy at auction in over 35 years. Hartley 1522; Magriel, Bibliography of Boxing, 19.