DAGLEY, (Richard).

DEATH'S DOINGS; CONSISTING OF NUMEROUS ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS IN PROSE AND VERSE...
London, 1826.
xviii+369pp. 24 engraved plates. Original boards, neatly rebacked. Foxed throughout. A tall untrimmed copy.
Includes The Game of Life; or, Death among the Cricketers, a poem by S. Maunder in which the poet draws an analogy between life and a game of cricket, pages 53-62. One plate shows Death bowling, while Time keeps wicket. Britton, Cricket Books. The 100 Best, 1929: 'Scarce.' Not recorded by Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906. Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937: 'Very scarce.' Padwick, 6970.
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