The Sporting Magazine or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chase, & every other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprise & Spirit, Vol 22, 1803 April - September by Various - 1803

Printed for J Wheble, London, 1803. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Half leather with marbled covers and banded decorated spine with spine-labels, text in 2 columns per page. Bumped corners and wear at spine-ends. Leather on joints is cracked. Binding is sound, pages are clean. Light foxing to plates with slightly heavier foxing to engraved title page. Page 61/2 is present but disbound. Includes five plates; vignette title, "Leopards devouring a Horse" facing page 104, "Lioness & Whelps attacking a Camel" facing page 160, "Spaniels" facing page 220 and "Hunting the Porcupine" facing page 268. No other plates are present. Contents Includes: April; Mr Richard Knight late huntsman to Earl Spencer, Morland's Hunting Pieces, Royal Chase, Fox Hunting, Harriers, Cocking, Battle between Six Men of the Inniskilling Foot and a Boy of the Berkshire Militia, Female Cricket Players, Migration of Water Fowl etc., Boxing - Belcher and Firby, Life of Major Leeson, Law cases - horse stealing and gambling, New Ballet of Action Sir John Dinely the Parisian Beauties, Duel between Colonel Montgomery and Captain Macnamara and trial, Poetry - Epilogue to John Bull, Crispin and the Calf, Death of Tom Moody, etc. May; Law - The King v Hill Darley, Epsom Races, Trotting Match, Battle of Lodi, Review of the Original Invention of Dice and Cards, Comical History of Beards, Cha-ou-ra-suo or Bird Catcher - the Indian Method of obtaining this celebrated Fish, Account of Swedish Horses and Races, Sports of the Credulous, Cards, etc. in France, A Hoylean's Address to the Four Kings, Opening of Coleman's Theatre. June; Sporting Dictionary, Infatuation and Outrage - Trial of John Grant at Old Bailey, American Harmonic Pic Nic, Fete at St Ives, Memoirs of a Celebrated Sporting Lady, A Royal Chess Player, Nightingales - why none are found in Devonshire and Cornwall. July; Spavins and College Puffing, Horsemanship as connected with the Order and Progress of Chivalry, Advantages of preserving the Martin, Swallow and Swift, Pleasantries of the late Oliver Goldsmith, Modern Politicians, Mouse Hunting, Taplin's Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Edgeworths on Irish Bulls, Poetry - On the Game of Cricket, etc. August; Trial of John Hatfield, New Comic Opera Love Laughs at Locksmiths, The Decline of Diversions in Wales, Ramble to Huntworthy Court Lodge, Female Chaise Driving in England, Dutch Divertisements and Festivities, Law Cases, Eagles taken in Ireland, Poetry - The Fisherman of Lapland, etc. September; Wolves in France, Shutting of Coleman's Theatre and opening of Winter's Theatre, Dr Franklin's Advice to Young Sportsmen, Horse Shoes by Opa Mico, Cornish Sports, Enmor Castle in Somerset hunting seat of Earl of Egmont, Aerostatic Experiments, Address of Mr Fawcett at the Opening of Covent Garden Theatre, New play The Maid of Bristol. Sporting Intelligence. Index. The Racing Calendar. 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: 57019103003..