Progymnasmata. The Inn-Play: or Cornish-Hugg Wrestler. Digested in a method which teacheth to break all holds, and throw most falls mathematically

Name: Progymnasmata. The Inn-Play: or Cornish-Hugg Wrestler. Digested in a method which teacheth to break all holds, and throw most falls mathematically
Author: PARKYNS (Sir Thomas, of Bunny Park)

Book Description

Third edition, corrected, with large additions, small 4to (199 x 154 mm), 8, xviii, 9-64, [2, appendix], [2, poem], [8, index]pp., first word of title in Greek (transliterated), woodcut to verso of title, 10 woodcuts in the text, one woodcut plate “Mr. Peaceable. Mr. Contentious”, tipped-in is an additional plate of Bunny Hall engraved W. & J. Walker, wood-engraved initials and headpieces, title page a little soiled with slight offsetting from the frontispiece, text a little age-toned with occasional spotting, two neat bookplates of early owners to front marbled endpapers, nineteenth-century half morocco, rubbed, marbled sides, lower portion of spine defective.

Dealer Notes

The third and best edition. Sir Thomas Parkyns (1664-1741), ‘Luctator’, was famous for his active mind and body. A mathematician and architect,he also wrote a Latin grammar but was principally famous for his passion for wrestling. As a student of mathematics he was invited by Newton to attend his lectures at Cambridge but also learnt wrestling from Mr Cornish of Gray’s Inn.
“contains references to pugilism, particularly in section (G), ‘boxing’.”—Hartley.
Hartley, Bibliography of Boxing, 1534

Author PARKYNS (Sir Thomas, of Bunny Park)

Date 1727

Publisher London: Printed for Tho, Weekes, and sold by Humph. Wainwright, at Bunny, Nottinghamshire,

Price: £850.00

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