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Sport
Since the literature of nineteenth-century sport is large, it has not been possible
to make this section comprehensive. Histories of particular sporting institutions,
e.g. yacht clubs, books on physical training and wholly statistical
works have, with one or two exceptions, been omitted.
(1) bibliographies
Howard, H. C., Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, H. Peek and F. G.
Aflalo (ed). In their Encyclopaedia of sport. 2 vols 1897–8, 4 vols
1911. Bibliographies under each main heading.
Slater, J. H. Illustrated sporting books: a descriptive survey. 1899.
Nevill, R. H. Old English sporting books. 1924.
Schwerdt, C. F. G. R. Hunting, hawking, shooting, illustrated in a
catalogue of books, manuscripts, prints and drawings. 4 vols
1928–37.
Gee, E. R. The sportsman’s library: being a descriptive list of the
most important books on sport. New York 1940.
Darwin, B. Sporting writers of the nineteenth century. In Essays
presented to Sir Humphrey Milford, Oxford 1948.
Cox, R. W. History of sport in Britain: a bibliography of historical
publications, 1800–1988. Manchester 1991.
(2) periodicals
The Sporting Magazine or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of
the Turf, the Chase etc. 1792–1870.
Annals of Sporting and Farming Gazette. 1822–8. Monthly.
Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle. 1822–86. Weekly.
Pierce Egan’s Life in London and Sporting Guide. 1824–7. Merged in
1827 with Bell’s Life in London, above. Weekly.
New Sporting Magazine. 1831–70. Monthly. From July 1846 identical
except for title page with The Sporting Magazine, above.
The Sportsman. 1834–70. Monthly. From July 1846 identical except
for title page with The Sporting Magazine, above.
The Oracle of Rural Life: an Almanack for Sportsmen. 1839–44; 1841
as Sporting Oracle; 1842–4 as Sporting Almanack.
The Sporting Review. 1839–70. Monthly. From July 1846 identical
except for title page with The Sporting Magazine, above.
The Field. 1853– . Weekly.
The Sporting Life. 1859– . Daily. Originally 24 Mar–27 Apr 1859 as
Penny Bell’s Life and Sporting News.
Baily’s Monthly Magazine of Sports and Pastimes. 1860–1926. From
1889 as Baily’s Magazine etc.
The Sporting Gazette. 1862–1905. Merged in 1905 with Land and
Water, below. Weekly. From 1880 as The Country Gentleman.
The Sporting Times [‘the pink ’un’]. 1865– . Weekly. See also J. G.
Booth, Old pink ’un days, 1924, and Master [i.e. J. Corlett, the
paper’s owner] and men, 1926.
The Sportsman. 1865–1924. Merged in 1924 with The Sporting Life,
above. Daily.
Land and Water. 1866–1920. Merged in 1920 with The Field, above.
Weekly. As The Country Gentleman and Land and Water 1905–15
apart from 2 nos, Aug 1914, appearing under original title.
Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. 1874– . Weekly.
The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes. 1895–1923.
Monthly.
Country Life. 1895– . Weekly. Before 1897 appeared as Racing
Illustrated.
(3) general studies
Strutt, J. Glig-gamena angel-�eo�: or the sports and pastimes of the
people of England. 1801, 1830; ed J. C. Cox [1903].
Taplin, W. The sporting dictionary and rural repository of general
information upon every subject appertaining to the sports of the
field. 2 vols 1803.
Taplin, W. The sportsman’s cabinet: or a correct delineation of the
various dogs used in the sports of the field. 2 vols 1803–4. Under
pseudonym ‘A veteran sportsman’.
Egan, P. Sporting anecdotes original and select. 1804, [1808], 1820,
1825, 1827 (as P. E.’s anecdotes, original and selected).
Thornton, T. A sporting tour through the northern parts of England
and the Highlands of Scotland. 1804.
Thornton, T. A sporting tour through various parts of France. 2 vols
1805.
Howitt, S. et al. Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes.
1814. Plates with text.
‘Needham, T. H.’ (T. B. Johnson). The complete sportsman. 1817.
Mayer, J. The sportsman’s directory. 1817.
Chafin, W. Anecdotes respecting Cranbourn Chase with the rural
amusements it afforded our ancestors. 1818, 1818.
‘Scott, W. H.’ (J. Lawrence). British field sports. 1818.
‘Careless, John’. The old English squire: a poem in ten cantos. 1821.
Hassell, J. Excursions of pleasure and sport on the Thames. 1823.
Armiger, C. The sportsman’s vocal cabinet comprising original
songs and ballads relative to field sports. 1830.
Johnson, T. B. The sportsman’s cyclopaedia. 1831.
Egan, P. P. E.’s book of sports and mirror of life. 1832.
Maxwell, W. H. Wild sports of the west [of Ireland]. 1832; ed W. H. H.
Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven, 1924.
Maxwell, W. H. The field book: or sports and pastimes of the United
Kingdom. 1833.
Walker, D. British manly exercises. 1834, 1835; ed ‘Craven’ (i.e. J. W.
Carleton) 1847. Appendix as Games and sports, 1837.