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BAILZIE PEAKODDE, pseudonym
The Pump ... composit be Bailzie Peakodde ... rendered into modern verse by Dr. Minch
Glasgow: [no printer], 1835. 4to., [8]p., printed in red and black, gothic letter, title with woodcut vignette (title soiled and detached, and with adhesive mark along inner margin of verso, final leaf secured with adhesive tape and soiled on verso), mid-20th-century half calf (slightly bowed). Provenance: J.W. Goldman (bookplate; inserted correspondence between Goldman and Norman L. Stevenson, and pencilled extract from "The Scotsman, Wed Aug 27, 1934"; lot 214 at Hodgson's, 24 November, 1966, unsold at £15). Exhibited: Cricket. A Catalogue of an Exhibition ... presented by the National Book League, 1950, no. 136.
LIMITED TO 23 COPIES. This "lamentable dirge" concerns the trickery to which Bob Maxwell, the hero of the Glasgow side, was subject to prevent him appearing in a match against Perth. The impatient crowd of "squire, commoner and whore", waiting on Glasgow Green, shower "a cloud of dogs and cats" at the home team, and are about "to brain them with their bats" when Bob arrives on a stretcher. He relates how he has been imprisoned by Squire Thomson, and set the impossible task of pumping up water into an unplugged bath to obtain his release. "The first mention of cricket in Scotland", according to the Goldman sale catalogue. Allen 29; Padwick 3259.
The Pump ... composit be Bailzie Peakodde ... rendered into modern verse by Dr. Minch
Glasgow: [no printer], 1835. 4to., [8]p., printed in red and black, gothic letter, title with woodcut vignette (title soiled and detached, and with adhesive mark along inner margin of verso, final leaf secured with adhesive tape and soiled on verso), mid-20th-century half calf (slightly bowed). Provenance: J.W. Goldman (bookplate; inserted correspondence between Goldman and Norman L. Stevenson, and pencilled extract from "The Scotsman, Wed Aug 27, 1934"; lot 214 at Hodgson's, 24 November, 1966, unsold at £15). Exhibited: Cricket. A Catalogue of an Exhibition ... presented by the National Book League, 1950, no. 136.
LIMITED TO 23 COPIES. This "lamentable dirge" concerns the trickery to which Bob Maxwell, the hero of the Glasgow side, was subject to prevent him appearing in a match against Perth. The impatient crowd of "squire, commoner and whore", waiting on Glasgow Green, shower "a cloud of dogs and cats" at the home team, and are about "to brain them with their bats" when Bob arrives on a stretcher. He relates how he has been imprisoned by Squire Thomson, and set the impossible task of pumping up water into an unplugged bath to obtain his release. "The first mention of cricket in Scotland", according to the Goldman sale catalogue. Allen 29; Padwick 3259.
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