NICHOLSON, (William).

AN ALMANAC OF TWELVE SPORTS. WORDS BY RUDYARD KIPLING.
London, 1898.
4to. 12 coloured woodcuts [representing a different sport for each month of the year] each with an accompanying page of verse. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards neatly rebacked, covers soiled.
The woodcut for the month of June depicts a batsman at the wicket and a wicketkeeper. Cardus & Arlott, The Noblest Game, 1969, no. 64: 'The batsman in this woodcut is presumably Alfred Mynn.' Not recorded by Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906. Padwick, 6989.
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