Cricket interest (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., xvi, 223pp., half-title present, top edges gilt, bound in good quality early twentieth century quarter morocco by W.H. Smith and Sons. A VG+ clean copy of this scarce collection of poetry by old fellow Winchester College students which includes a very early cricket item. Originally from the British Museum Library with neat inkstamp to verso of half-title. George Huddesford (1749 1809) was a painter (and pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds) and a satirical poet in Oxford. Huddesford published a number of works. His first was described by Fanny Burney as a "vile poem" as it revealed that she had written the novel, Evelina. This work also includes Cricket-Song. For the Hambledon Club, Hants, 1767, by Rev Reynell Cotton, one of the earliest significant cricket verses.…