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WILLIAM HARROD
Sevenoke. A poem humbly inscribed to his Grace the Duke of Dorset
London: J. Fuller and Sevenoke: Bryan Holland, 1753. 4to. (10 x 7¾in), woodcut head- and tail-piece and opening initial (lacks half-title, title lightly creased, old stab marks at inner margins, final leaf with small segment torn from inner margin), 19th-century brown cloth. Provenance: J.W. Goldman (bookplate; sold at Hodgson's, 24 November 1966, lot 36, to Epworth for £10-10-0. In a note to his own copy of the Goldman catalogue, Eagar records that Goldman "asked £25 privately", presumably before putting the book up for auction).
FIRST EDITION OF GREAT SCARCITY. The dedication is to the 2nd Duke of Dorset whose son, the 3rd Duke, willed the Vine ground "to be cricket ground for ever." Pastoral lines on the "aged Oaks majestic", "shady Beech" and "ripening Hop" are followed by a flattering reference to "Dorset's bounty" and a 26-line description of cricket at the Vine (pp. 13-15). The battle between "the repercussive bat" and "mounting ball" eventually allows an "advent'rous Youth" to take a catch that inflames the passion of a watching "rural Lass" ("Soft pleasing pleasure pants within her breast" writes the poet). Although there is a copy of Harrod's poem in the MCC Library, ESTC locates copies only at the BL, Bodleian, and Newberry Library, Chicago. Goldman p. 171: "very rare"; Padwick 2112.
Sevenoke. A poem humbly inscribed to his Grace the Duke of Dorset
London: J. Fuller and Sevenoke: Bryan Holland, 1753. 4to. (10 x 7¾in), woodcut head- and tail-piece and opening initial (lacks half-title, title lightly creased, old stab marks at inner margins, final leaf with small segment torn from inner margin), 19th-century brown cloth. Provenance: J.W. Goldman (bookplate; sold at Hodgson's, 24 November 1966, lot 36, to Epworth for £10-10-0. In a note to his own copy of the Goldman catalogue, Eagar records that Goldman "asked £25 privately", presumably before putting the book up for auction).
FIRST EDITION OF GREAT SCARCITY. The dedication is to the 2nd Duke of Dorset whose son, the 3rd Duke, willed the Vine ground "to be cricket ground for ever." Pastoral lines on the "aged Oaks majestic", "shady Beech" and "ripening Hop" are followed by a flattering reference to "Dorset's bounty" and a 26-line description of cricket at the Vine (pp. 13-15). The battle between "the repercussive bat" and "mounting ball" eventually allows an "advent'rous Youth" to take a catch that inflames the passion of a watching "rural Lass" ("Soft pleasing pleasure pants within her breast" writes the poet). Although there is a copy of Harrod's poem in the MCC Library, ESTC locates copies only at the BL, Bodleian, and Newberry Library, Chicago. Goldman p. 171: "very rare"; Padwick 2112.
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