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Sports - Field Genre
Books in the Sports - Field genre:
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837)
The adventures of Mr. Pickwick, his servant Sam Weller and his friends. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Hablot K. Browne
Robert William Buss
Robert Seymour
Sporting Society or Sporting Chat and Sporting Memories (1897)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Sporting Adventures of Charles Carrington, Esq. and Other Stories (1899)
A collection of quintessential British sporting stories. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Theobald Raoul William
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
The Trail of the Sandhill Stag (1899)
A further adventure of Yan, this time in pursuit of deer. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Ernest Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
Ernest Seton Thompson
Wild Life in Hampshire Highlands (1899)
A volume in the Haddon Hall Library. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
George A. B. Dewar
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Et al
Hunting (1900)
A volume in the Haddon Hall Library on fox hunting. Yes the hounds eat the carcass. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
J. Otho Paget
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Arthur Rackham
Lives of the Hunted (1901)
The life-stories of five wild animals. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Ernest Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
Ernest Seton Thompson
Out-Door Games, Cricket & Golf (1901)
A volume in the Haddon Hall Library on popular British pastimes. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
R. H. Lyttelton
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Et al
Shooting (1902)
Author(s):
Alexander Innes Shand
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
H. L. Richardson
J. Smit
How to Play Indian (1903)
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Two Little Savages: Being the Adventures of Two Boys Who Lived as Indians and What They Learned (1903)
Author(s):
Ernest Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
Ernest Seton Thompson
Nimrod’s Wife (1907)
Author(s):
Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Walter King Stone
The Book of Woodcraft (1912)
A comprehensive guide to woodcraft by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Manual of the Woodcraft Indians The Fourteenth Birch Bark Roll (1915)
Author(s):
Ernest Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Woodcraft Manual For Girls of the Woodcraft League (1916)
An early scouting handbook for girls. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Woodcraft Manual for Boys of the Woodcraft League (1917)
A scouting manual from a precursor of the Boy Scouts of America. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Hunting and Hiding (1920)
This illustration appeared in the November 1920 issue of The Designer and The Woman's Magazine. It is available online at freelibrary.
Author(s):
Unknown
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Compleat Angler (1931)
Author(s):
Izaak Walton
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Trail and Campfire Stories (1940)
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Julia M. Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
An Actor’s Life For Me (1953)
Author(s):
Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):
T. R. Freeman