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Ellen and George: or The Game at Cricket
London: T. Allman, 1832. 12mo. (5¼ x 3¼in; 137 x 84mm), 64p., engraved frontispiece and two plates (imprint on first plate shaved, D8 the final leaf of text affected by two marginal tears touching on letters), dark red morocco for Eagar, original printed wrappers with price of one shilling bound in (half-title and final blank both laid down on wrappers). Provenance: E.R. Wilson (Eagar Catalogue note).
Padwick lists two editions, the first appearing in 1825. Two of the copper-plates illustrate the game. The third shows Ellen's attention straying from her book to a cat, her mother having drawn the Venetian blinds to prevent her being distracted by the cricket. Eventually, she is allowed to take refreshments of strawberries and cherries to the players. Her brother, George, has the disadvantage of being younger than the other boys, and the story relates how in a fit of anger he "flung the ball which he had missed striking, with great violence at the bowler." By the end, however, he has learned to play "good-humouredly", putting an equal value on work and pleasure. NO COPY IN BL. Goldman p. 79 (citing 1st edition): "a very rare juvenile item"; Padwick 6287.
Ellen and George: or The Game at Cricket
London: T. Allman, 1832. 12mo. (5¼ x 3¼in; 137 x 84mm), 64p., engraved frontispiece and two plates (imprint on first plate shaved, D8 the final leaf of text affected by two marginal tears touching on letters), dark red morocco for Eagar, original printed wrappers with price of one shilling bound in (half-title and final blank both laid down on wrappers). Provenance: E.R. Wilson (Eagar Catalogue note).
Padwick lists two editions, the first appearing in 1825. Two of the copper-plates illustrate the game. The third shows Ellen's attention straying from her book to a cat, her mother having drawn the Venetian blinds to prevent her being distracted by the cricket. Eventually, she is allowed to take refreshments of strawberries and cherries to the players. Her brother, George, has the disadvantage of being younger than the other boys, and the story relates how in a fit of anger he "flung the ball which he had missed striking, with great violence at the bowler." By the end, however, he has learned to play "good-humouredly", putting an equal value on work and pleasure. NO COPY IN BL. Goldman p. 79 (citing 1st edition): "a very rare juvenile item"; Padwick 6287.
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