The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar [electronic resource] : of the transactions of the turf, the chace, and every other diversion interesting to the man of pleasure and enterprize.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Standardized Title:

Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar (London, England : Semiannual).

Language:

English

Genre:

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v., plates ) frontis. ;

Semiannual (April and October)

Volume the first. [Oct. 1792-Mar. 1793]-

Ceased in: 1870. Cf. Ward.

Other Title:

Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar

Place of Publication:

London [England] : printed for the proprietors, and sold by J. Wheble, o. 18. Warwick Square, Warwick Lane, near St. Paul's, MDCCXCIII [1793]-

Notes:

Collects monthly issues with the same title.

General title page engraved, with title page vignette.

Title pages of monthly issues include table of contents.

Racing calendars are bound at ends of cumulated volumes.

Includes essays and articles covering all aspects of sport, including hunting of exotic game in India, horse racing in Britain, shooting, game laws, veterinary science, boxing, rules of card games, cricket. Includes a section devoted to the poetry of sport and the chase, and monthly racing calendar.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Volumes lack chronological designation; dated from imprints.

Finding Aid/Index:

Last monthly issue of each volume includes subject index.

Index to the engravings: 1792-1870, published in 1892.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1309

Crane & Kaye, 841

Times handlist, p. 47

Ward, W.S. Index of serials, p. 153

English Short Title Catalog, P2463.

OCLC:

508356520