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Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 3 (of 3) / Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles from Contemporary Newspapers, With Authentic Portraits, Personal Anecdotes, and Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Prize Ring, Forming a Complete History of the Ring from Fig and Broughton, 1719-40, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863 cover

Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 3 (of 3) / Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles from Contemporary Newspapers, With Authentic Portraits, Personal Anecdotes, and Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Prize Ring, Forming a Complete History of the Ring from Fig and Broughton, 1719-40, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863

Chapter 36: Transcriber Notes
By Henry Downes Miles
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About This Book

This volume assembles extended biographies of prominent nineteenth-century British prizefighters, combining full contemporary reports of their battles with engraved portraits, personal anecdotes, and sketches of principal patrons. It follows the careers and fighting styles of leading champions—reproducing newspaper accounts and eyewitness detail—while documenting the ring’s changing practices and public reception. Match narratives and reminiscences convey tactics, training habits, and the social atmosphere surrounding high‑profile contests, offering a chronological account of the sport’s later development and its notable championship encounters.

Transcriber Notes

Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter in which related anchors occur. Inconsistent hyphenation, dialect, obsolete words and misspellings were left unchanged. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, or partially printed letters, were corrected. Spacing was adjusted between paragraphs for consistency. Transliteration of one phrase in Greek is provided as an insert; scroll cursor over the Greek and the transliteration will appear.

Comments:

  • There are five anchors to Footnote [43].
  • Occasional sentences lack a verb.
  • Fight rounds occasionally omit some numbers.
  • The meaning of one line ending with a hyphen is uncertain: “… and that gentle-
    and Orme;…”
    The letters, ‘man,’ may have been omitted, or the first word on the following line, ‘and,’ may be a misspelling for ‘man.’

The following items were changed:

  • Added final stops missing at the end of sentences.
  • Removed duplicate words at line endings or page breaks.
  • Capitalized lower case letters at beginning of sentences.
  • Removed spurious stops mid-sentence.
  • Adjusted mis-matched quotation marks around citations.
  • Added spacing between words, crowded by printer.
  • Removed misplaced comma preceding a list.
  • Changed commas to stops after numbers of subparagraphs.
  • Changed stops to commas mid-sentences.
  • Added commas unprinted in lists.
  • Added missing dashes after fight round numbers.
  • Added missing page number in index for first entry of Tass Parker.