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[DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)]. Sunday under Three Heads ... by Timothy Sparks. London: Chapman and Hall, 1836.
8° (162 x 102mm). Etched frontispiece and 2 plates after Hablot K. Browne. Three woodcut 'heads' on title, reprised on front wrapper. (A little light soiling.) Original pictorial buff wrappers (wrappers laid down, with small chips and nicks); blue morocco gilt slipcase and red silk chemise by Wood, London (chemise slightly torn).
FIRST EDITION. 'Dickens found time in the midst of his work on Pickwick to write his views on the freedom of the Sabbath for the poor man and give them form in a printed booklet" (Eckel, p. 102). Both works contain depictions of cricket. Dickens refers to the sight of a
'very animated game of cricket' in the last part of his pamphlet, 'Sunday ... as it might be made'. However, the famous cricket plate shows not the game itself but an old man coaching 'a sun-burnt young fellow' whose eyes inevitably fall on the old man's extremely pretty grand-daughter. In Dickens's view Sunday can undoubtedly be a day for both cricket and courtship. He not only argued for the preservation of popular recreations but for the opening of museums and art galleries on Sundays. Eckel pp.102-103; Kitton p.61: 'excessively scarce'; Gimbel B30; not in Padwick or other cricket bibliographies.
8° (162 x 102mm). Etched frontispiece and 2 plates after Hablot K. Browne. Three woodcut 'heads' on title, reprised on front wrapper. (A little light soiling.) Original pictorial buff wrappers (wrappers laid down, with small chips and nicks); blue morocco gilt slipcase and red silk chemise by Wood, London (chemise slightly torn).
FIRST EDITION. 'Dickens found time in the midst of his work on Pickwick to write his views on the freedom of the Sabbath for the poor man and give them form in a printed booklet" (Eckel, p. 102). Both works contain depictions of cricket. Dickens refers to the sight of a
'very animated game of cricket' in the last part of his pamphlet, 'Sunday ... as it might be made'. However, the famous cricket plate shows not the game itself but an old man coaching 'a sun-burnt young fellow' whose eyes inevitably fall on the old man's extremely pretty grand-daughter. In Dickens's view Sunday can undoubtedly be a day for both cricket and courtship. He not only argued for the preservation of popular recreations but for the opening of museums and art galleries on Sundays. Eckel pp.102-103; Kitton p.61: 'excessively scarce'; Gimbel B30; not in Padwick or other cricket bibliographies.
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