Progumnasmata. The inn-play: or, Cornish-hugg wrestler. Digested in a method which teacheth to break all holds, and throw most falls mathematically ... By Sir Tho. Parkyns, of Bunny, baronet ...

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Title: Progumnasmata. The inn-play: or, Cornish-hugg wrestler. Digested in a method which teacheth to break all holds, and throw most falls mathematically ... By Sir Tho. Parkyns, of Bunny, baronet ...
Creator: Parkyns, Thomas, Sir, 1662-1741
Parkyns, Thomas, Sir, 1662-1741. Inn-play: or, Cornish-hugg wrestler
Contributor: Lazarus, Herbert B.--Ownership
Published / Created: 1727
Publication Place: London,
Publisher: Printed for T. Weeks, at the White-hart,
Description: "Memorandum" signed: J.N.
Added t.p. engr.
BEIN 1994 213: Variant issue: Includes dedication leave to Frederick Prince Royal of Great Britain" bound between p. xiv and xv; Appendix and "A poem in memory of the marble effigies of Sir Thomas Parkyns" bound between p. xviii and p. 9 instead of at end; from the collection of Herbert B. Lazarus.
First word transliterated from Greek.
Includes references to boxing (particularly p. 59)
Extent: 22 cm.
8, xviii, 9-64, [8] p., [1] leave of plates
illus.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Edition: 3d ed., corrected, with large additions.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: NLn95 713pc

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format: text
Subject (Name): Lazarus, Herbert B.--Ownership
Subject (Topic): Boxing
Boxing--Early works to 1800
Wrestling

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Citation: 1534
Hartley, R.A. Boxing books,

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 3132066
Object ID (OID): 11890156