Donovan, Mike – The Science of Boxing. Also Rules and Articles on Training Generalship in the Ring and Kindred Subjects.

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Donovan, Mike ‘The Science of Boxing, Also Rules and Articles on Training Generalship in the Ring and Kindred Subjects’ 1893. New York Dick & Fitzgerald, 18 Ann Street. 78-pages plus two pages of advertisements. Contents include positions, taking distance, feinting, blows and guards, the pivot blow, right hand boxing, infighting, stops, ducking and clinching, side-stepping, how to box a taller man, generalship, how to judge a fight, how to train. Good condition with tight binding, straight, and very clean. It also includes the bookplate of deceased longtime British boxing author and historian Peter McInnes.