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J. MARCH, publisher
Sports for all Seasons ... illustrating the most common and dangerous accidents that occur during childhood
London: J. March, [c. 1845]. 8vo., text printed on inside wrappers and on side only of 6 leaves, hand-coloured wood-engravings throughout, original green decorative wrappers (rubbed, rebacked, and with repaired tears).
No. 5 in March's "Library of Instruction and Amusement", published at sixpence. Cricket is referred to under the heading: "The Accident" in games for autumn. The young reader is told: "Trap ball and cricket are juvenile field sports, and not fit to be played near the houses ... where it generally ends in the ball going through a window ...." Illustrations of trap-ball and cricket appear on the page opposite, trap ball outside a house, but cricket in the safety of a spacious field. Not in Osborne or Padwick.
Sports for all Seasons ... illustrating the most common and dangerous accidents that occur during childhood
London: J. March, [c. 1845]. 8vo., text printed on inside wrappers and on side only of 6 leaves, hand-coloured wood-engravings throughout, original green decorative wrappers (rubbed, rebacked, and with repaired tears).
No. 5 in March's "Library of Instruction and Amusement", published at sixpence. Cricket is referred to under the heading: "The Accident" in games for autumn. The young reader is told: "Trap ball and cricket are juvenile field sports, and not fit to be played near the houses ... where it generally ends in the ball going through a window ...." Illustrations of trap-ball and cricket appear on the page opposite, trap ball outside a house, but cricket in the safety of a spacious field. Not in Osborne or Padwick.
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