The New Sporting Magazine, Vol. 1 nos.1 - 6, May-October 1831 & The Racing Calendar 1831 by Nim South, Baron H Gablenz; Toxophilius, Richard Lawrence, Dashwood, See-Ho, Tip-and-Go, Albert Engelhorn, Sylvanus Swanquill, The Old Warwick, Dormin, Menander etc - 1831

Baldwin & Craddock, London, 1831. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Half-leather with marbled boards and end-papers, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, light wear at joint ends, sound binding, clean pages, end-papers and plates. All plates are present, these are: Title vignettte showing a Fox; Dead Red Deer; Partridge Shooting; Fly Fishing; Pedigree and Performance of his Majesty's Horse The Colonel; The Haunts of the Chamois; Spaniel, winner of The Derby; Black Game; Camel, a brown horse; Gadfly, a favourite Hound; Racing, The Starting Post; His Grace the Duke of Portland's Yacht, Pantaloon, beating to windward with the Frigates of Sir Edward Corington's Fleet of the Dodman on 21 July 1831 Contents include (some topics noted in earlier numbers also feature in later numbers but are not listed again here): May 1831 No. I: Address to the Public; Nim South's Tour; Racing, Newmarket Meetings; Acts of Pariament - Alderman Wood's Canine Madness Bill, Lord Althopre's Game Bill; Wild Boar Hunting in Saxony; The Pleasures and Advantages of Archery; Fine Arts - Sporting Subjects in the British Institution, and Society of British Artists; Anatomy. etc. of theHorse; The Close of the Hunting Season in Sussex - Scarcity of of Foxes in East Sussex and Col. Wyndham's Coverts - Disturbance of Coverts by Harriers - General Sport with Mr Craven's and Col. Wyndham's Hounds - Mr Bridger and the Foxes around Erringham - Death of Mr Burrell - Sport with Mr Dawson's Harriers - Mr Amyatt of Conock - Mr Assheton Smith - Mr T Smith - Mr Codrington and Mr Horlock's Hounds - The Blackmoor Vale etc. - Lewes Hunt Races; Chasseurs's Letter From Paris; General Monthly Miscellany - The Chase - Observations on the present state of and Review of Sport during the Past Season - The Turf - Races to come - Races Past - Warwick - Catterick Bridge - The Hoo - Ashbourne - Bath - Steeplechases - Amesbury Coursing Meeting - Archery - Cricket - Pigeon Shooting - Aquatics - Water Colours - Billesdon Coplow; Latest Inteligence - Col. Jolliffe's Hounds - Sir John Gerard's - York and Epsom Races - Bettings - Hay and Corn Markets. June 1831 No. 2: The Road, No. 1; See-Ho On Coursing; Letter on Horse Dealing; On the Preparation of Hunters For Grass; Tipping Boys at School; Racing - Newmarket second Spring and Epsom Meetings; The Contested Election; General Monthly Miscellany - Mr Ralph Lampton's and the Northumberland Fox Hounds - Mr Sulllivan's Stag-Hounds - Shooting, Letter on Rearing Eggs of Game destroyed - Pigeon Shooting at the Red House - New Sporting Club at the Stadium - Hampton Races - History of the Saddler. July 1831 No. 3; Letter on Hare-Hunting No. 1; Matramonial Advertisements; Reviews of Books; Mr Ackerman's Sporting Prints; Chamois Hunting in Switzerland; Naughty Husband; Hydrophobia; The First Day of the Season; Editor's Scrap Book; A Day with "The Surrey"; Snipe Shooting; A Day at the Trent. August 1831 No. 4: Game Laws and Woodcocks; Description of a Fox-Hunter of the Last Century; Reform or Habits of the Lower Orders; Sporting Reminiscences - Fishing; On Riding Over Wheat; Archery in Flanders - Shooting at the Popinjay; A May Trip to the Thames; New National Gallery; Songs of the Chase; Miscellany - Laws of Marylebone Cricket Club - Rowing abd Sailing Matches - Stud Sales - Horses Gone Abroad. September 1831 No. 5: The Blank Day; The Itinerary of Fynes Morton Gent, written in 1617; On the Present Mode of Shoeing Hunters; Irish Hunting; Fly-Fishing in Wales; Trout Fishing at the Blythe; Remarks on Riddlesworth and the Leger Favourites; An Expedition against the "Moors"; Racing - Goodwood Meeting; The Newspaper; The New Game Bill; Legal Decisions; Miscellany - Poachers on Northern Moors. October 1831 No. 6: Theatricals - An Amateur Performance; Temperance Societies; Wright's Improved Game Book; Letter from an Old Sportsman to Sylvanus Swanquill; The Opening of the Organ; Carp-Fishing; Doncaster Races; A Line from Nimrod; Wild Duck Shooting; Miscellany - Tommy Tickle - Notes to Correspondents. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57018101056..