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HARROD, William (d. 1819). Sevenoke. A Poem humbly inscribed to his Grace the Duke of Dorset. London: J. Fuller and Sevenoke: Bryan Holland, 1753.
4º (248 x 193mm), woodcut head- and tailpiece and opening initial. (Lacks half-title, title lightly soiled, soiling to blank verso of final leaf, title and dedication with small piece torn from upper corner of inner margin, all inner margins strengthened.) Late 19th-century blue half calf, blue marbled endpapers (spine worn, covers slightly bowed). Provenance: [John Arlott] – A.E. Winder (bookplate; sold Phillips, A Collection of Cricketana, 20-21 November 1985, lot 357) – Henry M. Cohen (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF GREAT RARITY AND NOTABLE PROVENANCE. The imprint includes the price of one shilling. The dedication is to the 2nd Duke of Dorset whose son, the 3rd Duke, willed the Vine ground ‘to be cricket ground for ever.’ Pastoral lines on the ‘aged Oaks majestic’, ‘shady Beech’ and ‘ripening Hop’ are followed by a flattering reference to ‘Dorset's bounty’ and a 26-line description of cricket at the Vine (pp. 13-15). The battle between ‘the repercussive bat’ and ‘mounting ball’ eventually allows an ‘advent'rous Youth’ to take a catch that inflames the passion of a watching ‘rural Lass’ (‘Soft pleasing pleasure pants within her breast’ writes the poet). There is a copy of Harrod's poem at Lord’s. ESTC locates other copies only at the BL, Bodleian, Harvard and Newberry Library, Chicago. Goldman p. 171: ‘very rare’; Padwick 2112; not in Allen.
4º (248 x 193mm), woodcut head- and tailpiece and opening initial. (Lacks half-title, title lightly soiled, soiling to blank verso of final leaf, title and dedication with small piece torn from upper corner of inner margin, all inner margins strengthened.) Late 19th-century blue half calf, blue marbled endpapers (spine worn, covers slightly bowed). Provenance: [John Arlott] – A.E. Winder (bookplate; sold Phillips, A Collection of Cricketana, 20-21 November 1985, lot 357) – Henry M. Cohen (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF GREAT RARITY AND NOTABLE PROVENANCE. The imprint includes the price of one shilling. The dedication is to the 2nd Duke of Dorset whose son, the 3rd Duke, willed the Vine ground ‘to be cricket ground for ever.’ Pastoral lines on the ‘aged Oaks majestic’, ‘shady Beech’ and ‘ripening Hop’ are followed by a flattering reference to ‘Dorset's bounty’ and a 26-line description of cricket at the Vine (pp. 13-15). The battle between ‘the repercussive bat’ and ‘mounting ball’ eventually allows an ‘advent'rous Youth’ to take a catch that inflames the passion of a watching ‘rural Lass’ (‘Soft pleasing pleasure pants within her breast’ writes the poet). There is a copy of Harrod's poem at Lord’s. ESTC locates other copies only at the BL, Bodleian, Harvard and Newberry Library, Chicago. Goldman p. 171: ‘very rare’; Padwick 2112; not in Allen.
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