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Period 18th century

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Subject Terms Stone, Melville E. -- Provenance.

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1. The new complete sportsman, or, The town and country gentleman's recreation : containing among the various diversions which are made plain and easy to every capacity ...: together with many other equally curious articles, too numerous to mention here, and including many useful directions to horse-feeders, grooms and others ...

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Creator:
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq
Date:
1770
Physical Description:
iv, 302 [i.e. 202], [2] p, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Clemency to brutes : the substance of two sermons preached on a Shrove-Sunday, with a particular view to dissuade from that species of cruelty annually practised in England, the throwing at cocks.

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Date:
1761
Physical Description:
31, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The cocker : humbly inscribed to those gentlemen who are amateurs of the game cock, that prodigy of British valour / by a gentleman who has been in the habit of breeding these eight and twenty years.

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Creator:
Sketchley, William
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
45, [28] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. True narrative of what pass'd at the examination of the Marquis de Guiscard at the cock-pit : the 8th of March, 1710-1711, his stabbing by Mr. Harley and other precedent and subsequent facts relating to the life of the said Guiscard.

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Creator:
Manley, Mrs. (Mary de la Rivière), 1663–1724
Date:
1711
Physical Description:
23 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The royal pastime of cock-fighting, or, The Art of breeding, feeding, fighting, and curing cocks of the game : published purely for the good, and benefit of all such as take delight in that royal, and warlike sport: to which is prefixed, a short treatise, wherein cocking is proved not only ancient and honourable, but also useful, and profitable / by R. H., a lover of the sport, and a friend to such as delight in military discipline.

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Creator:
Howlett, Robert
Date:
1709
Physical Description:
[30], 92 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts