including the methods of treating them, from the time they are hatched, till fit to fight: including instructions for the choice of a cock and hens to breed from…Later edition. Folding hand-coloured frontispiece. Slim 8vo. Later calf, gilt, t.e.g., original wrappers bound in, frontispiece watermarked 1833, a near fine copy. [2], 7-28pp. London, J. Bailey, c, 1833.
First published in the late eighteenth century, this pamphlet gives an interesting glimpse into the workings of this sport which was to be banned just a few years later under the Cruelty to Animals Act of 1835.