The Sporting Magazine. By Command Under the Former Patronage of HRH Prince Albert. 1848 Part 2 July - December by Various - 1848

Rogerson & Tuxford, London, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Half leather with marbled covers and banded decorated spine. Both covers and spine are present but completely detached, rubbed and worn. Corners are bumped. Page 65/66 is loose. Page 13/14 is disbound and first gathering is very loose. Page 95/96 of the Turf Register and free end papers are disbound with the back cover. Includes a vignette title plate but no other plates are present. Pages are clean. Contents Includes: July Surplice, Winner of the Derby 1848 Two Years in the Far West Sporting Incidents at Home and Abroad (from Life of Hon Percy Hamilton) A Peep at the Provinces Bear Shooting Fox Hunting in Scotland Sale of Blood Stock at Stockbridge Turf Register 1848 August “Once More Upon the Moors” Reminiscence of a Grouse Shooter My Last Day on the Exe Approaching Grouse Season in Scotland Angling Rivers in the North of Scotland Cymba, the Winter of the Oaks Lays of the Deer Forest Public Amusements of the Metropolis September The Regatta in the Solent Fox Hunting in the South of France A Day’s Sport in South Africa Angling in the Lakes of Scotland The Steeple Chase Dick and Daisy Jones’s Guide to Norway Wiltshire Coursing Prize Picture October Woodcock Shooting in Ireland Biography of the late Lord George Bentinck The Pocket and the Stud – Dog Breaking Fore’s Steeple-Chase Scenes Blood Stock Sale at Doncaster November Sketches from the Cape of Good Hope Notes of the Chase After the Gallop December Biography of William Scott Vicious Horses Hunting in Western Texas and a Visit to San Antonio de Bejar in 1843 Index Turf Register 1848 No dust jacket, as published. Bookplate for Junior Carlton Club on inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57019081112..