Excerpt from The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository of General Information Upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field, Vol. 1 of 2: Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Sandwich, Master of His Majesty's Stag Hounds Buried in oblivion. F rom there faets may be inferred, the very trifling utility fuch books are of in the improved fports and refined polilh of the prefent time; more particularly when one juli and emphatic remark from the pen of a molt popular writer is adverted to, that there is no fubjeet upon which fo little has been judi cioufly written, as Upon the sports of the field; and what has ilfued from the prefs under titles of attracting fimilitude, have been much more the efl'orts of theoretic lucubration, than the refult of praftical knowledge, or per. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Volume one of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

This book explores the role of animals – horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs – in shaping Georgian London. Moving away from the philosophical, fictional and humanitarian sources used by previous animal studies, it focuses on evidence of tangible, dung-bespattered interactions between real people and animals, drawn from legal, parish, commercial, newspaper and private records.This approach opens up new perspectives on unfamiliar or misunderstood metropolitan spaces, activities, social types, relationships and cultural developments. Ultimately, the book challenges traditional assumptions about the industrial, agricultural and consumer revolutions, as well as key aspects of the city’s culture, social relations and physical development. It will be stimulating reading for students and professional scholars of urban, social, economic, agricultural, industrial, architectural and environmental history.