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Sturges, J. Guide to the game of draughts. 1800.
[Pratt, P. (ed)]. Studies of chess. 2 vols 1803.
‘An amateur’ (Rev T. Pruen). An introduction to the history and
study of chess. Cheltenham 1804.
Twiss, R. Pamphlets on chess and draughts. In his Miscellanies vol 2,
1805.
An easy introduction to the game of chess. 2 vols 1806.
Sarratt, J. H. A treatise on the game of chess. 1808; ed W. Lewis
1822.
Kenny, W. S. Practical chess grammar. 1817.
Peacock, Thomas Love. The chess dance. In his Melincourt vol 2 ch
28, 1817.
‘An Oxford graduate’. Observations on the automaton chess player.
1819.
Playfair, P. The queen and her pawns against the king and his pieces:
a poem. 1820.
Sarratt, J. H. A new treaties on the game of chess. 2 vols 1821, 1828.
Cochrane, J. A treatise on the game of chess. 1822. With a catalogue of
writers on the game.
Lewis, W. Elements of the game of chess. 1822.
Dibdin, C. I. M. The Chessiad: a mock-heroic poem in five cantos. In
his Comic tales and lyrical fancies, 1825.
Madden, F. Historical remarks on the introduction of the game of
chess into Europe. Archaeologica 24 1832.
Walker, G. A new treatise on chess. 1832, 1833, 1841 (with full bibliography),
1846 (as The art of chess-play).
Lewis, W. A treatise on the game of chess. 1844.
Staunton, H. The chess-player’s handbook. 1847.
Walker, G. Chess and chess-play: original stories and sketches.
1850.
‘An amateur’ (S. S. Boden). A popular introduction to the study and
practice of chess. 1851.
[Tomlinson, C.] Chess: a poem. 1854.
‘A member of the Cambridge University Chess Club’. Chess: a poem.
1858.
‘An Englishman’ (F. M. Edge). Paul Murphy, the chess champion;
with a history of chess and chess clubs in England. 1859.
‘Captain Crawley’ (G. F. Pardon). Backgammon: its theory and practice
with something of its history. [1860.]
Forbes, D. The history of chess. 1860.
Staunton, H. Chess praxis: a supplement to The chess-player’s
handbook. 1860.
Kennedy, H. A. Waifs and strays, chiefly from the chessboard. 1862,
1876.
‘Carroll, Lewis’ (C. L. Dodgson). Through the looking-glass, and
what Alice found there. 1872.
Gossip, G. H. D. The chess-player’s manual: a complete guide to
chess. 1875.
MacDonnell, G. A. Chess life-pictures. 1883.
Gould, J. The game of draughts. 1884.
Winter-Wood, E. J. The unexpected guest: a chess tale. In Chess souvenirs,
1886.
Tylor, L. Chess: a Christmas masque. 1888.
Bird, H. E. Chess history and reminiscences. [1893].
MacDonnell, G. A. The knights and kings of chess. 1894. Essays on
chess and chess-players.
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Murray, H. J. R. A history of chess. Oxford 1913.
Sergeant, P. W. A century of British chess. 1934.
Murray, H. J. R. A history of board-games other than chess. Oxford
1952.
Murray, H. J. R. A short history of chess. Oxford 1963.
See also Penn under Angling, above.
Cock-fighting
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Houston, T. The cock-fight. 1804.
The game cock, with an account of his origin. 1825.
Tregellas, J. T. The amusing adventures of Josee Cock, the Perran
cock-fighter. 1857. Verse.
Cooper, J. W. Game fowls: their origin and history. 1869.
[Taylor, S. A.] Cocking and its votaries. 1885 (priv ptd).
Atkinson, H. The old English game-fowl. 1891, Idle 1899.
Atkinson, H. Cock-fighting and game-fowl. Bath 1938.
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Scott, G. R. The history of cock-fighting. [Hindhead 1957.] With bibliography.
Fitzbarnard, L. Fighting sports. Hindhead 1983.
Coursing
‘Sportsman’. A treatise on greyhounds. 1819.
Goodlake, T. The courser’s manual or stud-book. 1828. With a contribution
by Sir Walter Scott and a history of coursing.
Continuation of The courser’s manual. 1833.
Thacker, T. The courser’s companion. Derby 1829, 2 vols 1834–5.
‘Stonehenge’ (J. H. Walsh). The greyhound: a treatise on breeding
and training for public running. 1853, 1864, 1875.
Bullock, W. J. The coursing guide: or the Waterloo Cup made easy.
[1873], [1874].
Brown, D. The history of coursing. In The greyhound stud book vol
3, 1884.
Jones, T. The courser’s guide. 1896.
See also Lascelles and Mackintosh under Angling, above; ‘The Druid’
under Hunting, Racing, Riding, below.
Cricket
Bibliographies
Gaston, A. J. The bibliography of cricket. In Wisden’s Cricketers’
Almanack for 1892, 1894, 1900, 1923.
Bibliography of cricket. 1895 (priv ptd). A separate work from the
above.
Taylor, A. D. The catalogue of cricket literature. 1906.
Waghorn, H. T. Bibliography of cricket. In his The dawn of cricket,
1906.
Britton, C. J. Cricket books: the 100 best old and new. Birmingham
1929.
Goldman, J. W. Bibliography of cricket. 1937 (priv ptd).
Brodribb, A. G. N. Cricket in fiction: a bibliography. Canford 1950
(priv ptd).
Padwick, E. A. (ed). A bibliography of cricket. 1984 (2nd edn).
Allen, D. R. Early books on cricket. 1987.
Eley, S. and P. Griffiths (ed), Padwick’s bibliography of cricket. ii
1991.
Periodicals
John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack. 1864– . 1864–9 as Cricketers’
Almanack; 1938 as Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. Index (to 1943)
by R. Pogson, 1944.
Cricket. 1892–1914. Weekly. After 1913 as The World of Cricket.
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Boxall, T. Rules and instructions for playing at the game of cricket.
[1800], [1801], 1804.
Lambert, W. Instructions and rules for playing the noble game of
cricket. Lewes 1816, 1830 (12th edn). Later edns variously as The
cricketer’s guide or Lambert’s cricketer’s guide. The 20th edn was
pbd in 1829 before the 12th. The 13th–19th edns have not been
traced. Originally a plagiarism of T. Boxall, Rules and instructions,
above; see also G. B. Buckley, Lambert’s cricketer’s guide in
Cricketer spring annual 1942; R. S. Rait Kerr, Lambert’s cricketer’s
guide in Cricketer spring annual 1949.