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A. L. FORD
Curiosities of Cricket ... by an Old Cricketer. Brighton: D.B. Friend, 1897. 8vo, cricket vignette on opening leaf. (A little soiled, one leaf with ink mark.) Blue buckram for MCC, uncut, original wrapper bound in, front wrapper carrying title and woodcut vignette (upper cover badly dented, wrappers slightly browned and soiled).
NO. 3 OF 25 COPIES. Ford's emphasis is both on exceptional performances and whimsical events. Rapid and slow scores, remarkable bowling and catching feats, 'curious' matches and freak accidents, are given in a tightly-condensed form with his sources of information always acknowledged. The more bizarre matches include: Bakers v Millers, Shoemakers v Tanners, Women with bats v Men with broomsticks playing left hand, Handsome v Uglies, Heavy with Sin v Light with Honesty, One Arm v One Leg, and Umbrellas v Bats. Cases are brought to light of a batsman who used a bat 'with trap door to enclose ball', a fielder who 'jumped on to bystander's horse to ride after the ball', 'matches in pocket of batsman ignited by ball bowled', '15 weasels' that 'crossed wicket during match', and a hapless umpire 'ducked in pond for giving an unsatisfactory decision'. Both vignettes used by the publisher had previously appeared in Gaston's Bibliography. Padwick 108.
Curiosities of Cricket ... by an Old Cricketer. Brighton: D.B. Friend, 1897. 8vo, cricket vignette on opening leaf. (A little soiled, one leaf with ink mark.) Blue buckram for MCC, uncut, original wrapper bound in, front wrapper carrying title and woodcut vignette (upper cover badly dented, wrappers slightly browned and soiled).
NO. 3 OF 25 COPIES. Ford's emphasis is both on exceptional performances and whimsical events. Rapid and slow scores, remarkable bowling and catching feats, 'curious' matches and freak accidents, are given in a tightly-condensed form with his sources of information always acknowledged. The more bizarre matches include: Bakers v Millers, Shoemakers v Tanners, Women with bats v Men with broomsticks playing left hand, Handsome v Uglies, Heavy with Sin v Light with Honesty, One Arm v One Leg, and Umbrellas v Bats. Cases are brought to light of a batsman who used a bat 'with trap door to enclose ball', a fielder who 'jumped on to bystander's horse to ride after the ball', 'matches in pocket of batsman ignited by ball bowled', '15 weasels' that 'crossed wicket during match', and a hapless umpire 'ducked in pond for giving an unsatisfactory decision'. Both vignettes used by the publisher had previously appeared in Gaston's Bibliography. Padwick 108.