AUTHENTIC PORTRAITS,

After Original Engravings and Pictures, by Sir James Thornhill, Hogarth,

Hayter, &c.

Biographical Details and Anecdotes of the Principal Patrons of the P.R.;

FORMING THE ONLY

COMPLETE AND CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE RING

Ever Published, comprising in all about 2,000 pages, and 100 Full-page

Portraits.

To be complete in TWENTY MONTHLY PARTS, price 1s. each.

Forming three handsome demy 8vo. volumes.

Volume I. will contain 30 full-page Portraits of Celebrities.

=PERIOD I.=—1719 to 1791.—From the Championship of Fig to the first

appearance of Daniel Mendoza.

=PERIOD II.=—1784 to 1798.—From Daniel Mendoza to the first battle of

James Belcher.

=PERIOD III.=—1798 to 1809.—From the Championship of Belcher to the

appearance of Tom Cribb.

=PERIOD IV.=—1805 to 1820.—From Cribb’s first battle to the

Championship of Tom Spring.

Volume II. will contain Authentic Portraits after Original Engravings.

=PERIOD V.=—1820 to 1824.—From the Championship of Spring to his

retirement from the Ring.

=PERIOD VI.=—1825 to 1835.—From the Championship of Jem Ward to the

appearance of Bendigo (William Thompson), of

Nottingham.

Volume III. will contain Authentic Portraits, &c.

=PERIOD VII.=—1835 to 1845.—From the appearance of Bendigo to his last

battle with Caunt.

=PERIOD VIII.=—1845 to 1857.—The interregnum. Bill Perry (the Tipton

Slasher), Harry Broome, Tom Paddock, &c.

=PERIOD IX.=—1856 to 1863.—From the appearance of Tom Sayers to the

last Championship battle of King and Heenan, December,

1863.

⁂ To each period there is an Appendix containing notices and sketches of

the minor professors of the _ars pugnandi_, and of the light-weight

boxers of the day.

Each Volume will be complete in itself, price 10s. 6d. each, handsomely

bound in cloth gilt.