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Cock-fighting display'd: or, Lucas cut down.
Date: 1749- Books
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.
Johnson, Thomas Burgeland, -1840.Date: 1848- Pictures
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Men are gathered around in a circle watching two cocks fight one another. Wood engraving after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 34384i- Books
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The complete sportsman; or, country gentleman's recreation: containing The art of angling in all its various branches, ... By J. [sic] Fairfax, Esq.
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.Date: 1795- Books
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Directions for breeding game cocks: with the methods of treating them From the Time they are Hatched, till fit to fight. Including instructions For the choice of a Cock and Hens to Breed from; Place to Breed at; and Remarks worthy Observation previous to fighting a match; Articles for a Cock Match; Key to a Match Bill; Rules and Orders in Cocking, abided by at the Cock-Pit Royal, Westminster, &c. With calculations for betting, Being the Result of many Years Experience.
Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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Game fowls, their origin and history, with a description of the breeds, strains, and crosses : the American and English modes of feeding, training, and heeling; how to breed and cross, together with a description and treatment of all diseases incident to game fowls / [John W Cooper].
Cooper, John W., 1803-?Date: 1869- Books
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The complete sportsman; or Country Gentleman's recreation. Containing The very best Instructions under the following Heads. Viz. Of Breeding and the Management of Game-Cocks. Of Cock-Fighting. Of Colts and backing Colts. Of the Breeding and Management of Race-Horses, Hunters, &c. Of Horse-Racing. Of Bowling. Of Coursing. Of Hare-Hunting. Of Fox-Hunting. Of Buck-Hunting. Of Breeding and Ordering all Manner of Dogs, Pigeons, Rabbits, &c. Of Angling. Of Otters and Otter-Hunting. Of Pheasants. Partridges. Wood-Cocks, and all Manner of Game. Of Breeding and Managing Canary Birds, &c. &c. And several other Articles too numerous to be mentioned in a Title Page. Compiled by Mr. T. Fairfax.
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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Orations on various select subjects, by Mr John Grub, Late Schoolmaster of the Parish of Wemyss, in Fifeshire, as performed by his scholars after the usual examination on harvest vacation days, and on Shrove Tuesdays, in place of cockfighting. These orations, for the Use of Grammar-Schools on the above Days, are published by Mr Robert Wilson of sylvania, near Dunfermline.
Grub, John, approximately 1725-1755.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Books
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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.
R. H. (Robert Howlett).Date: 1709- Books
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The complete sportsman; or country gentleman's recreation. Containing the very best instructions under the following heads. Viz. of breeding and the management of game-cocks. Of Cock-Fighting. Of Colts and backing Colts. Of the Breeding and Management of Race-Horses, Hunters, &c. Of Horse-Racing. Of Bowling. Of Coursing. Of Hare-Hunting. Of Fox-Hunting. Of Buck-Hunting. Of Breeding and Ordering all Manner of Dogs, Pigeons, Rabbets, &c. Of Angling. Of Otters and Otter-Hunting. Of Pheasants, Partridges, Woodcocks, and all Manner of Game. Of Breeding and Managing Canary-Birds, &c. &c. And several other Articles too numerous to be mentioned in a Title Page. Compiled by Mr. T. Fairfax.
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Pictures
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Sarawak: two Sea Dayaks at a cockfight. Photograph.
Reference: 30501i- Books
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Cocking. To be fought at the Cockpit Royal, the south side of St. James's Park, this present Saturday the 2d of February, 1788, the gentlemans great annual subscription cock match. ...
Cockpit Royal (Westminster, London, England)Date: 1788]- Books
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An historical list of horse-matches run, and of plates and prizes, run for in Great Britain and Ireland in 1747. Containing The Names of the Owners of the Horses which have Run as above, and the Names and Colours of the Horses also. With The Winner distinguished, of every Match, Plate, Prize, or Stakes. The Conditions of Running, as to Weight, Age, &c. and the Places in which the losing Horses have come in. With a List also of the principal Cock-Matches of the Year above, and who were the Winners and Losers of them, &c. By John Cheny.
Cheny, John, active 1729-1750.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]- Books
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An historical list of horse-matches run, and of plates and prizes, run for in Great Britain and Ireland in 1746. Containing The Names of the Owners of the Horses which have Run as above, and the Names and Colours of the Horses also. With The Winner distinguished, of every Match, Plate, Prize, or Stakes: The Conditions of Running, as to Weight, Age, &c. and the Places in which the losing Horses have come in. With a List also of the Principal Cock-Matches of the Year above, and who were the Winners and Losers of them, &c. By John Cheny.
Cheny, John, active 1729-1750.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XLVI. [1746]- Books
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An historical list of horse-matches run, and of plates and prizes, run for in Great Britain and Ireland in 1748. Containing The Names of the Owners of the Horses which have Run as above, and the Names and Colours of the Horses also. With The Winner distinguished, of every Match, Plate, Prize, or Stakes. The Conditions of Running, as to Weight, Age, &c. and the Places in which the losing Horses have come in. With a List also of the principal Cock-Matches of the Year above, and who were the Winners and Losers of them, &c. By John Cheny.
Cheny, John, active 1729-1750.Date: Printed in the Year M,DCC,XLIIVI [i.e. 1748]- Books
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An historical list of horse-matches run, and of plates and prizes run for in Great Britain and Ireland in 1742. Containing The Names of the Owners of the Horses that have Run as above, and the Names and Colours of the Horses also. With The Winner distinguished of every Match, Plate, Prize, or Stakes: The Conditions of Running, as to Weight, Age, &c. and the Places in which the losing Horses have come in. With a list also of the principal Cock-Matches of the Year above, and who were the Winners and Losers of them, &c. By John Cheny.
Cheny, John, active 1729-1750.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
Country contentments. or, The husbandmans recreations. : Containing the wholesome experience, in which any ought to recreate himself, after the toyl of more serious business. As namely, hunting, hawking, coursing with grey-hounds, and the laws of leash, shooting in the long-bow or cross-bow, bowling, tennis, baloon; the whole art of angling; and the use of the fighting cock. / By G. Markham.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.Date: 1675- Books
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The cocker: a poem. In Imitation of Virgil's Third Georgic. Humbly inscrib'd to the Honourable Society of Sportsmen at Grantham. By Isaac Hallam.
Hallam, Isaac.Date: 1742- Books
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The last dying speech and confession, Birth, Parentage, and Behaviour, of Mary Benson, alias Maria Theresa Phipoe, who was executed this morning facing the debtor's door, Newgate, and the extraordinary speech she made while she was standing under the gallows.
Date: 1795?]- Books
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The last dying speech and confession, birth, parentage, and behaviour, of the unfortunate malefactors, executed this day before the debtor's door, Newgate.
Date: [1795?]- Books
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An historical list of horse-matches run, and of plates and prizes, run for in Great Britain in 1749. Containing The Names of the Owners of the Horses, &c. which have Run as above, and the Names and Colours of the Horses also. With The Winner distinguished, of every Match, Plate, Prize, or Stakes. The Conditions of Running, as to Weight, Age, &c. and the Places in which the losing Horses have come in. With a list also of the Principal Cock-Matches of the Year above, and who were the Winners and Losers of them, &c. By John Cheny.
Cheny, John, active 1729-1750.Date: Printed in the Year M,DCC,XLIX. [1749]- Books
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An historical list of horse-matches run, and of plates and prizes, run for in Great Britain in 1750. Containing The Names of the Owners of the Horses, &c. which have Run as above, and the Names and Colours of the Horses also. With The Winner distinguished, of every Match, Plate, Prize, or Stakes. The Conditions of Running, as to Weight, Age, &c. and the Places in which the losing Horses have come in. With a list also of the Principal Cock-Matches of the Year above, and who were the Winners and Losers of them, &c. By John Cheny.
Cheny, John, active 1729-1750.Date: Printed in the Year M,DCC,LI. [1751]- Books
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An essay upon the royal recreation and art of cocking. By William Machrie, Fencing-Master in Edinburgh.
Machrie, William.Date: 1705- Books
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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.
Sketchley, William.Date: [1793]- Pictures
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An audience at a cockfight. Etching by E. Riepenhausen after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 39217i