A full, true and particular account of the great battle fought by Robinson and Crosbie : in a field near West Craigs, on Saturday last, the 11th day of June 1825, for 200 Sovereigns.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL.
[Edinburgh] : Printed for Alexander Turnbull,
[1825]
John Crosbie was a Scottish pugilist about whom little is known. He was probably the Crosbie who fought a Londoner called Birrell in 1814 and almost certainly the one who beat a fellow Glaswegian called Carrick in 1818. Matt Robinson, from Yorkshire, was successful in two fights in Scotland (he also defeated Tom 'Scotch' Robertson). The Crosbie fight was reputedly his prize-ring debut. He died in Manchester in 1861.
'Price one penny'.
Provenance: Bound in a volume carrying the inscription 'This collection is understood to have been formed by the late James Maidment and it has been added to by me. John A. Fairley' on first fly-leaf.
Boxing