Slang. A Dictionary Of The Turf, The Ring, The Chase, The Pit Of Bon-Ton & The Varieties Of Life
By Jon Bee
Printed for T. Hughes: London 1823 1st Edition
Scarce
"Jonathan Badcock (fl. 1816-1830), who commonly wrote under the pen name Jon Bee, seems destined to be remembered as the "other" Regency era boxing writer, after Pierce Egan. British pugilism was still very much in its heyday when Badcock was recording its doings for the monthly Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette (1822-28) and other publications. Like Egan, Badcock was interested in the sporting subculture generally: the August, 1825 Blackwood's described him as ". . . an active frequenter of all sorts of public houses, chaffing cribs, fives-courts, eccentrics, &c., as well as a most ardent and indefatigable street-walker at all hours and seasons—a man also well acquainted with the fair, and not unacquainted with those whose ways of life are generally foul . . . ."