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  • The sportsman's cyclopaedia; comprising a complete elucidation of the science and practice of hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, fishing, hawking, cockfighting, and other sports and pastimes of Great Britain, interspersed with entertaining and illustrative anecdotes / by T.B. Johnson.
  • The sportsman's cyclopaedia; comprising a complete elucidation of the science and practice of hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, fishing, hawking, cockfighting, and other sports and pastimes of Great Britain, interspersed with entertaining and illustrative anecdotes / by T.B. Johnson.
  • Sarawak: two Sea Dayaks at a cockfight. Photograph.
  • An audience at a cockfight. Etching by E. Riepenhausen after W. Hogarth.
  • A detail of a cockfight. Etching by E. Riepenhausen after W. Hogarth.
  • Detail of a scene at a cockfight. Etching by E. Riepenhausen after W. Hogarth.
  • Detail of an audience at a cockfight. Etching by E. Riepenhausen after W. Hogarth.
  • Detail of an audience at a cockfight with a man lighting his pipe. Etching by E. Riepenhausen after W. Hogarth.
  • Men are gathered around in a circle watching two cocks fight one another. Wood engraving after W. Hogarth.
  • The elaborately dressed rake holds a purse as a man presents him with an invoice; a lace-seller, a fencing master, a violin player, a cocker and a jockey represent the services and pursuits he is engaged in. Engraving by Thomas Bowles, 1735.
  • Tom Nero, a hackney coach driver, beats with sadistic cruelty a disabled horse; a herdsman cudgels a sheep and a sleeping drayman runs over a boy with a hoop. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1751.