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E.W. HORNUNG
The Cricket on the Green. Middlesbrough and London: Jordison and Co., [1895]. Oblong 4to, [34p.], lithographic text and illustrations after R. E. Wethey printed in blue. (Title and following leaf spotted, light creasemarks, one page slightly soiled at margin.) Original pictorial covers backed in cloth (covers soiled and crease-marked).
Humorous verses on a match between the villages of Whizzingham and Hurry-cum-Up. Ernest William Hornung (1866-1921) had become brother-in-law to Arthur Conan Doyle on his marriage to Constance Doyle in 1893. In 1899 he published The Amateur Cracksman, containing his first stories about A.J. Raffles -- former public school boy and varsity man, a cricketer by day and burglar by night. Padwick 6698.
The Cricket on the Green. Middlesbrough and London: Jordison and Co., [1895]. Oblong 4to, [34p.], lithographic text and illustrations after R. E. Wethey printed in blue. (Title and following leaf spotted, light creasemarks, one page slightly soiled at margin.) Original pictorial covers backed in cloth (covers soiled and crease-marked).
Humorous verses on a match between the villages of Whizzingham and Hurry-cum-Up. Ernest William Hornung (1866-1921) had become brother-in-law to Arthur Conan Doyle on his marriage to Constance Doyle in 1893. In 1899 he published The Amateur Cracksman, containing his first stories about A.J. Raffles -- former public school boy and varsity man, a cricketer by day and burglar by night. Padwick 6698.